Heritage!

We've taked a bunch this weekend about heritage. What it means to our family is not just american, scottish, germany, welsh, english and ethiopian. Our families heritage comes from all of those countries and it means to do some celebrating, eat some great food, lots of learning and making connections. I love that we live in a city that we can experience heritages. Some we are connected to and some we are learning and just enjoying cause I love other cultures. On the third annual trip to a Greek festival my oldest son turned to me while eating some yummy food and said, "Mom are we even Greek". My response was no but isn't it great to experience this and we didn't have to leave our city.

Though we love heritages and cultures and to learn new things our biggest connection we want to make for our children is to our heritage in the Lord's family. No matter what culture we come from or what nation, we all were created in God's image and if we've receive Christ as our saviour we are adopted into God's family and our heritage is in Him. We first and for most our children of God. I love to learn differences of people around the world but I long to make connections of us all that only God can do - to be brothers and sisters in Christ. No matter what nation, social status, economical status or age or anything. The one label that removes all other labels is to be a child of God. 1John 3:1 - "See how great is a love the Father has lavished on us that we would be called chilren of God and that is what we are!"