Scene opens up with a five year old boy running to his mom asking frantically, "Mommy!  Mommy!   Why is Lola and Tito screaming at each other?".  The boy, being unused to this commotion until this time is calmed down by the mother with the words, "Don't worry, they're just talking business".

Fast forward to a few days later when the boy finds himself in a fistfight with his cousin in the Lola's garden.  Lola runs outside to break up the fight when the boy blurts out while taking a jab, "Don't worry Lola, we're just talking business!!!".

The five year old boy is now grown up.  And now the reflection is this...more than forty years are about to pass.  Still no end in sight for the squabbling in that part of the family.  It is so sickening that it is pathetic.

I spoke to my kids yesterday and gave them some insight on a reading of Scripture I had the other day.  I told them, "Did you know that there are things that Jesus cannot do?".  Kids then started naming all the negatives which would not be within Jesus' capacity to perform.  Beyond the smart-aleck replies, I brought them to what I had recently pored over in the Bible. 

Luke 12:13-14

 ¹³Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

 ¹⁴Jesus replied, "Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?" ¹⁵Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

"Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?".  Jesus Himself leaves it to us to settle this matter.  

Indeed a strange reflection.