Our faith family reminds us that however normal we may think we are, we all come from dysfunctional families, and we need to live by grace, forgiveness and generosity. At the same time, we can look back on a greater history than that of our own ancestry and that history can give us a moral and spiritual compass to navigate by, so that we can evaluate our upbringing, test it to see whether we are on the right track or have been led astray.