My mother -in-law took a class in her community many years ago.....answering questions about her family, her history, "life when".... Each week they were given a different topic to answer and write about...
She faithfully answered them. They were typed out. Then in her last years we went through family pictures and added these to her stories and finally we made copies, had them bound, and she signed each one in December, gave them out to family members...she passed away in January......
That family history book changed within three months ...with her death and one of her sons...and it keeps changing with marriages, births, more deaths.....more pictures, more adventures of family members....family reunions....life goes on and on....it is not fixed, unmoving, but fluid, changing....going into the future, adding...words and more pictures....more people.....
.my husband and I each did a personal history book, added thoughts, pictures, copied it and. Gave it to our children..
Another year I went through all the photo albums, scanned hundreds of pictures, made an album for each child,, an album of general family pictures, historical per-child pictures...printed them and gave them as Christmas presents....the following spring my husband passed away and left the present picture...changes, life moving on....
We each could take the same class and write our own books, add our own stories, pictures, testimonies ......we can record blessings, daily living, hard times....care for one another...life as we know it...what had God wrought in our time lines....pictures of our lives...caught in time...changes through the years.....what will be our story. ....we have choices, of how some of it will play out....and we don't have choices in other things....God knows the beginning to the end....what will we hand down to be remembered......
From cover to cover , the Bible is filled with families, their stories, the good, the bad and the ugly...their testimonies which flow down through the ages....how God dealt with them in various life circumstances. How he may deal with us.....there are no pictures, He leaves that to our mind's eye,....But there is plenty of descriptions .....to "see" the scenes...of life...
2 Timothy 3:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, ......16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Genesis 5:1
[ From Adam to Noah ] This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.
Genesis 6:9
[ Noah and the Flood ] This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
Genesis 11:10a
[ From Shem to Abram ] This is the account of Shem’s family line. ....
Genesis 11:27a
[ Abram’s Family ] This is the account of Terah’s family line. ....
Genesis 37:2a
This is the account of Jacob’s family line. .....
Numbers 3:1
[ The Levites ] This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.
Ruth 4:18
[ The Genealogy of David ] This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,.....
1 Chronicles 17:16
[ David’s Prayer ] Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and he said: “Who am I, Lord God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
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