“I want you to feel at home with Me, as if in a family that loves you deeply and where you are always accepted.” (Inner Word)
If people knew this, much could change in their lives. Even if one had the grace to grow up in a good family, this opens one’s eyes once again, and one will be able to say: “If I was already fortunate enough to grow up in a good family, how much better must the heavenly family be, from which all the good that has come my way originates.” With such insight, one can even follow a call to leave one’s beloved natural family when the King desires the beauty of the human person (cf. Ps 45:12).
For people who have not encountered this grace in their lives, or only to a very limited extent, the Word becomes a great comfort. This may also become an important way of not expecting from one’s own family what it is unable to give. It also helps us not to remain in an attitude of accusation against these circumstances and to become more forgiving of our own parents’ imperfections.
We must truly make our home in God and with those who belong to Him. That is what our Father desires. In the security of His love, we are to walk through this world. God’s love will be able to more than make up for whatever natural security we may have lacked.
Even as imperfect human beings, we are allowed to make mistakes and come to our Father. His love does not hold our mistakes against us, but lifts us up and gives us all the help we need to move forward. Let us not forget: It is a divine family that is not affected by human mistakes. We are always affirmed by God. Our Father is always waiting for us to turn to Him so that He can make us at home in His family. It will be the most beautiful thing that can happen to us on earth! And it shines with a special radiance when our natural family is also consciously at home in this family of God!