As I sit here reflecting on 44 years of life, many who were here when I was born have left for heaven.
That is the sad reality of life.
I think of my grandparents, both Ducommun and Haynes.
The way their life choices shaped my parents, and the way my parents' life choices shaped my own.
What if generations before me had not chosen a life lived for Christ?
What if they had not chosen to stay married when things were hard?
The fact is, they chose Christ. They chose to stay and love even when it wasnt always easy.
They chose to live lives in adoration of our Heavenly Father. They chose to raise their families in the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
God blessed our family in that we have had, since birth, the opportunity and the freedom to choose to live for Him. Each generation past has made the firm choice to live for Christ.
Our lives going forward depend on us, the new middle generation, to keep the legacy that the older generations have built. To instill in the younger generations the Love of Christ, to work through the hard times in marriage, to raise our children and future grandchildren to love Jesus and love others.
If we don't teach them ways of the Lord not only with words, but by example, this legacy will be lost.
I strive to keep the legacy they have built going in my home and family.
Both sides taught us that our relationship with God comes first, then our relationship with our spouse, and then our family. Its is vitaly important that we continue to keep that order going forward. If we don't, the world will take over, and our most precious ones will not follow us to heaven's gates. We can't take material possessions with us, but we can train up our children and share with our grandchildren the saving knowledge ot Jesus Christ, and then they too can choose to follow Christ.
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