Inheritance

    Yesterday was my mother's birthday; she would have been 90 years old. She passed away in 2006. I look a lot like my mother, and have inherited several things from her:

• Her interest in other people, an outgoing personality.
• Musical abilities. She didn't play an instrument, but she could sing.
• Interest in the Bible and commitment to a local church body.

    Those are some of the good things. I've also inherited arthritis from her! It started in my thumbs and now in my knees.


Sharon and her daddy



    Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday. (I won't say how many, Sharon!) She is such an amazing woman. The inheritance from my mother has passed on to her too - I hope the arthritis doesn't!  

    We don't get to choose what we inherit from our family of origin. We get the positive and the negative things. But as an old Nike advertisement said, "You are not your mother," which seems to mean we can choose what we do with what we inherit. 

     I am thankful today. More to come on "thanks and joy."