All families make mistakes, but if the motive-- the heart--is in the right place-- the relationship endures. Perhaps that is the message of our short Gospel passage today, where the Holy Family of Jesus gets it wrong, thinking Jesus is "out of His mind," and attempts an intervention. If we look at the situation we can see how Mary and the others got it wrong. Jesus had been obedient and not caused problems, except for that one incident when He stayed behind at the Temple when He was 12 (which people still talked about). We think He took up Joseph's trade as a carpenter. Nothing out of the ordinary is reported about His life as a young man. Then, from the family's perspective, out of the blue, He starts hanging around with this wild-haired, animal-skin wearing, insect-eating preacher named John. He engages in some ritual washing in the Jordan River, and is out of sight for 40 days. When He resurfaces He has crazy stories about being tempted by the Devil and not eating the whole time. Then He announces that He is the one foretold by the prophet Isaiah who will bring the "good news to the poor." Where did that come from? To make matters worse, He starts hanging around with the low-lifes-- hookers, drunks, dishonest government officials. He doesn't follow the rules as the leaders understand them, and even takes them on. He attracts these huge crowds, and seems to be able to heal people. None of these things ever happened with Jesus before. Obviously the family think things have gone terribly wrong. He is crazy, or possessed, or something. So they do the best thing they thing they can do-- they stage what we would call an intervention. They try "to seize Him" (Mk 3: 21). Was that the right thing to do? From their perspective, yes. As we look at it now, the answer is obviously different, and more nuanced. If done for the wrong reasons the effort to stymie Jesus ministry might have been devistating to the whole family relationship. But it wasn't. We know the relationship was ultimately repaired. Mary was at the cross with Jesus, and with the apostles for the Resurrection. Jesus "brother" James becomes the head of the Church in Jerusalem. Do we always get it right in our families? Nope. But if we're acting from the right place in our hearts, even if we get it wrong, the damage can be repaired. That's what happened with the Holy Family.