ourselves thrown together and asked to share the burdens of life while learning to care for one another. Often, of course, we will resent such claims on our time and energy. Indeed, learning not to resent them is likely to be the work of a lifetime. If we decline to learn the lesson, however, we cease to live in the kind of community that deserves to be called a family, and we are ill prepared to live in the community for which God has redeemed us—a community in which no one stands on the basis of