Keeping the Heritage Alive

As of late, I have had an overwhelming desire to continue my family's legacy of traditions and rich heritage. It's amazing how being a parent makes your own childhood memories rush in like a flood. My family teases me all the time about holding onto memories, but this burden is so much different. I think it has been a compilation of lots of different events over the last few years. Maybe it was seeing a photograph, my cousin, Allen took while showing his girls the Water Wheel our Grandaddy Bill built with his bare hands for Edisto Gardens,



or seeing that my Grandma's garden is flourishing because my Aunt Brenda is helping to keep her heritage alive,



my uncle passing away and my family uniting together,



or recalling stories of my Grandparents love for the Lord or singing hymns around the piano. Whatever the reason, the burden is heavy and too valuable to not cherish the past.

More than anything, I want my children to speak of me as a mother striving to be a Proverbs 31 woman. My mother and father carried on their spiritual heritage and I want to continue to pass the torch...the only torch that matters.

A friend asked me how I will pass on the heritage, which got me to thinking that my answer is simple, but living it isn't always so easy...

*put Christ first in everything I do

*cherish every moment and opportunity to share memories

*continue to visit all of our families spread throughout the country

*share photos of my family that are far away

*capture and incorporate family history and tradition

*thank the Lord for our supportive families

*use this blog to keep my family connected

With Much Love for my family!