The Past and Present--As Well As the Future.

 The Past and Present—As Well As the Future.

 

Read recently about how a baby exchanges some cells with its mom as it grows in the womb. Strange, but the grandmother’s cells are just as connected to the baby as the mother’s cells, in some ways. My personality was built along stubborn lines that came from generations, just as the genetic materials came along right behind them. Just look at my driver’s license to see my mom, and then look at my daughter to see her mother. God built us to carry these characteristics, these tendencies. But the best part of all is that He also built in the receptors for love and giving. Because God is love, we inherited some of His love.

 

Read today in Max Lucado’ God Is with You Every Day about a grandmother alone in a nursing home. This is NOT to make anyone feel guilty, but too often it hits home for some of us.

Spend all your love on her now,

Forget not the hands: though spotted,

The hair, though thinning,

 The eyes, though dim,

For they are a part of you.

And when they are gone, a part of you is gone.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.