"Your great-great-grandfather was my gggf's owner. He bought him at Charleston, SC on a slave block." Many can honestly say that. Still others were forced to works as slaves, for years, until they payed off the cost of the trip to America they had to purchase to leave farms which they were forced off in their homeland. Many, many more worked for "halves" on the land of another, as "sharecroppers".
Musing about what privilege we pass on to the next generation. Family is important, for so many reasons. A car for high school graduation certainly zooms one down life's highway. Some even get one on their sixteenth birthday?!
What a blessing to have godly parents. This blessing can even spillover into the third and fourth generation?! The godly advice and encouragement of a grandparent is incalculably invaluable! The personality of an entire family takes its cue from a godly patriarch and/or matriarch.
A trust account or inheritance from a grandparent may enablingly distract, or hopefully provide a stepping stone to greater service and sacrifice?!
Conversely, dark input from ungodly parents is an aweful curse. The curse is often multigenerational.
Godliness is free for the taking, for any who want it. Conversely, darkness is cripplingly expensive in so many ways! Walking in the light is safer and more sensible. Stumbling along in the darkness is destructive and stupid.
Priorities, values, habits, viewpoints, vocabulary, ... all are passed on, for better or worse.
White privilege? Dark curse? What are we passing on?
We only give what we have in our hands, and in our heart.
In all your striving after the temporary and perishable, do not miss the eternal and permanent.
Be careful what you desire. You may get it. Then you'll pass it on to your family, like a disease. You will enslave the next generation.
Jesus is the Light!
Don't walk in darkness.
Bless the next generation!
