Perfection?

There is one thing I've learned about families and that is: no family is perfect and no parent is perfect, but there are good families and there are good parents.  A family system is complex and dynamic.  It takes a lot of time and patience to incorporate good family values, faith, trust, obedience, patterns, and a system into a functioning family. What gives me strength is to know that the Lord provides an outline of a perfect family.  He knows that we are not perfect, but He does expect us to work at it.  We can not have a perfect family if we do not know the foundation of a proper functioning family, and that is found here.