The Unbroken Line: Finding Our Way Home
- ISBN-10
- 1095057057
- ISBN-13
- 9781095057056
- Series
- The Unbroken Line
- Pages
- 150
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-04-19
- Author
- J. Briggs
Description
The Unbroken Line ...Finding Our Way HomeFrom a hospital bed, a father and daughter recall a trip they made together 30 years ago to Grandmom's. The daughter had a difficult Catholic school assignment and he was going to his 30th school reunion. The setting is 2025 and the same daughter now has a daughter of her own facing an almost identical assignment and is trying to learn from her mother's experience. It amounts to one day in the life of a family that involves four generations in time. Discussion of race, religion, neighborhood culture, and family heritage figure into the daughters' quest for understanding, and address the many issues and problems faced by society today striving to maintain their own unbroken line of family ties.Faith is a like a two-way road wherever there are unbroken lines, those solid double yellow lines that are there for one's own protection. It serves as a precaution for one never knows what might be approaching, especially when it can't be seen. We go forward in life trying to observe the rules laid down by those that came before us, trusting that there is a good reason for them. When we do not appreciate the wisdom of the past, we often must test the limits and learn by trial and error. Sometimes this doesn't go well. Every parent knows what it feels like to lose control of the steering wheel of life when their child reaches the late teenage years and decides they know better. The influences of the world are many and mightily powerful. It is a risky time and one worth wearing out the knees of one's pants, if they are to get any sleep at all.But there is hope. An unbroken line of family descendants from Abraham leads to the birth of the Savior, the hub of the universe, and He brings us closer to each other as we draw closer to Him. An unbroken line extends from Jesus' appointment of Peter to the present- day Pope. We take the guidance of the Old and New Testaments and the Magisterium to the present day. The goal is to strive to live according to an unbroken line between the Great Commandment to love God and others as self as in an ever-connected circle of thought and action. This is the purpose of life, to know and serve, and Jesus is the way. When life brings brokenness, we have forgotten who He is and why we need Him. Broken lines come about when we fail to depend on Him every step of the way.
