Generational Blessing

Generational Blessing

A picture speaks a thousand words.

My mother died of cancer when I was just eight years of age.  A longing in my heart  was that I could have had a personal written letter from my mother, sharing with me words of wisdom, comfort, instruction, directions ~ words of impartation from her heart to mine. I was longing for a blessing from her. As I grew up, I came to understand that often actions speak louder than words and that while I never had received that letter I desired, a letter written in ink on paper, instead she had left me a ‘letter’ written by her actions taken within the final months of her life.

Very near the end of my mother’s life, she made the decision to fulfill a lifetime dream of catching a sailfish. Within six months of her death, mother flew to Acapulco, Mexico with my father to go deep sea fishing. There she experienced the fulfillment of a dream. She caught a sailfish which was later mounted as a focal point in our family room. I looked at that fish every day in its prominent place.

As I grew up and later gave my life to Jesus Christ, I realized that what people do when they are faced with a short time to live, how they choose to spend that remaining time, is a statement in itself. In fulfilling her dream, I came to realize that my desire was fulfilled. My mother had left me a message for a lifetime. It was not one written on paper but on my heart ~ the message was, GO FISHING! That message took root in my heart and has been motivating, encouraging and instructing me ever since.

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Matthew 4:19

And He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

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My mother died of cancer when I was just eight years of age.  A longing in my heart  was that I could have had a personal written letter from my mother, sharing with me words of wisdom, comfort, instruction, directions ~ words of impartation from her heart to mine. I was longing for a blessing from her. As I grew up, I came to understand that often actions speak louder than words and that while I never had received that letter I desired, a letter written in ink on paper, instead she had left me a ‘letter’ written by her actions taken within the final months of her life.

Very near the end of my mother’s life, she made the decision to fulfill a lifetime dream of catching a sailfish. Within six months of her death, mother flew to Acapulco, Mexico with my father to go deep sea fishing. There she experienced the fulfillment of a dream. She caught a sailfish which was later mounted as a focal point in our family room. I looked at that fish every day in its prominent place.

As I grew up and later gave my life to Jesus Christ, I realized that what people do when they are faced with a short time to live, how they choose to spend that remaining time, is a statement in itself. In fulfilling her dream, I came to realize that my desire was fulfilled. My mother had left me a message for a lifetime. It was not one written on paper but on my heart ~ the message was, GO FISHING! That message took root in my heart and has been motivating, encouraging and instructing me ever since.

Here's the next Generation Fishing

Psalm 78:4-6 (AMP): “We will not hide them from their children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonderful works that He has performed.5 For He established a testimony (an express precept) in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, commanding our fathers that they should make [the great facts of God’s dealings with Israel] known to their children,6 That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children.”