I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

8Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

Camilla, my dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of your legs shorter than the other.