One Screwed up Family

This Sunday I am preaching about King David’s family.  I am swimming in a story of anger, disobedience, betrayal, and pain.  All families have times of trail and struggle.  Not all are dysfunctional.  Imperfect beings sharing life together will not always experience harmony and joy.  Perhaps that is why we have the pain of David’s family laid out before us.  It is as if God is telling us  if David’s family can be included in the scriptures, then our less than perfect families can quit seeing themselves as failures.  We are flawed humans trying to live in close relationship.  There are days, weeks and perhaps seasons where it will not always work out well.  But God is in the mix with us.  On some days we find healing, some just enough grace to keep holding on and on other days, complete joy.  That is true about my family.  It is true about the church family.  That is why I need this story of David’s one screwed up family.