Protect and Empower the Children

Children, unless taught to do otherwise, only know how to love.  It's innate.

Children are taught by the generations in their families.

The teachings of those older generations are the legacy the children are left with, and will pass down as a legacy, when they are the oldest generation in their futures.

That's a compelling way to view things, isn't it?

We learn certain things that are passed down from generation to generation.  Family feuds happen; look at the Hatfields and the McCoys.  It wasn't until 2003 that they finally created a truce between the two families.  I can't imagine that there aren't still remnants of that feud that linger, despite the publicity of the truce. Generations of hateful family members, holding onto something that happened between ancestors they hadn't even met, continued to fester in undue anger.

However, those three cousins empowered themselves because it was the right thing to do, to end that feud.  They empowered themselves to protect and empower their children.

What have you been taught in your past, by your ancestors, that you would love to unlearn right now, so that your children will learn the right things?  So that you can protect and empower them, so that when they reach adulthood, they don't have to bear the burden of generations of hate.

Instead, they will be able to pass down a legacy of respect for those who did it, of forgiveness for old, hurtful wrongs, of changing habits, of changing perceptions, and of bringing peace by learning to compromise.  They will pass down a legacy of protecting and empowering future generations of people you'll never meet, but they will know of you because you changed a pattern.

Protect and empower your children.  That way, they will pass that down.  And so on, and so on.