Family heritage

Generational bondage – you’ve seen it at work, haven’t you?  A pattern in a family, handed down from parents to kids to grandkids?  Behind what we see in the natural, the spiritual world comes into play, far more often than we realize.

For me personally, generational stuff is tricky.  I was adopted as an infant, and never knew my birth parents.  I’m okay with that, by the way.  But over the years, I’ve pondered the spiritual applications of the debate on nature vs. nurture:  to what extent am I affected by my birth parents, my adoptive family, or both? 

I appreciate the open nature of Neil’s prayer at the end – it covers the full gambit.  My addition to his prayer is that I would have discernment to recognize what in the natural world has spiritual forces at work, and that my husband and I would deal with our own issues so as not to pass them along to our kids.