Listen to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
—Proverbs 1:8
This morning, I gazed at a 125-year-old photograph on my bedroom bookcase—my paternal grandmother.
Twenty-eight steps away, in my home office, I stared at a picture of my father and connected the dots. I would not be coming to my office every day to think, and write, and post, were it not for my dad. And it is unlikely that he would have become a Christian were it not for his mother.
So, over a century ago, my grandmother planted the seed that set the course for my life. No wonder I pause before those two portraits and say, “Thank you!”
We didn’t get where we are on our own. We had help. They being dead yet speak (Heb 11:4).
Embracing your history
will help you shape the future.