My brother was also able to make it out to Cape Breton, and so all four of us, along with my new family, were all living together under the same roof for a couple of weeks. We had a great time together but we also started to relive some of the old tensions we used to experience as a family when my brother and I were growing up. There were a couple of heated arguments at various points and we were reminded of how, despite how close we are, there are some things that are somewhat dysfunctional about our family. I think that s true of all families. There s no such thing as a perfect family.
Every family is dysfunctional in some way.
But some families are more dysfunctional than others, and when it comes to dysfunctional families, Jacob s family would have to be at the top of the list. In lots of ways not all that much has changed in a few thousand years. Jacob had 12 sons who came from four different mothers. But of those two wives and two concubines, Jacob s true love was Rachel and her two sons were special. Joseph and Benjamin were born to Jacob in his old age and they were special.