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What Heritage do you pass on?

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As we live on this earth, we recognize that we all tend to inherit some or many traits from our parents - some good and some bad. I know I passed on my “sweet tooth,” to my boys, since we all enjoy a warm blueberry crumb pie with ice cream. I am not sure if that is a good or bad heritage that I pass on?  However, as I look back to when I was growing up in New Delhi in India, I have one picture of my dad, which is engraved in my mind for the past 50+ years. This was the picture of my dad every day in the evening, kneeling down on our rugged old multi-colored carpet with a reddish tinge, for the family Prayer. He would open his worship songbook and sing a song with my mom. Then he would read the Bible and close in prayer, as my brother and I tried to listen to it half-asleep. I do not remember what he read or sang or prayed, but his posture to pray to Jesus every day is still embedded in my mind.  I am convinced that the embedded image of my dad kneeling and praying to the divine Creato