It was not my fault, but it is my fight.

Numbers 14:18
"The LORD [is] longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation]."

My time line began before I was born when my grandmother lost both her parents in the Plaque of 1918, and she became an orphan. My grandmother was the only one of her siblings that was adopted. Then, when she and Grandpa Floyd had four children of their own he went off to work in the mines, and never came home. My grandmother was abandoned twice, once by her parents and now by her husband. It was not her fault but it was her fight. My mother was two years old when she lost her father Floyd Metheny, at the age of thirty years old, in the Osage #3 mine explosion in 1942 that was owned by Christopher Coal. Now, not only was my grandma abandoned by her husband, but my mother was abandoned by her father, my grandpa. It was not her fault but it was her fight.  Then, in 1955 December 31st my grandmother was locked in a barn, and the barn was set on fire. There were eye witnesses but, no one was ever arrested for the murder, due to injustice. My mother was pregnant for me. I wasn't due for a few more months, so my mother had to be medicated. Now, my father was abandoned, and once I was born two months later, my mother abandoned me for a time. She just couldn't focus on me, I reminded her of the loss of her mother. Daddy told me when we finally went back home, the Christmas Tree needles were brown and laid upon the floor--it was April. Abandonment was not my fault but it is my fight. Too young to know or do anything yet, my childhood memories were stripped from me. My body and soul remember but only when triggered; then I react from the tenderness of the wound. The triggers that I have today stemmed from before I was born. Abandoned people many times abandon people; and hurt people--hurt people. 

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ACTION STEP: Scripture explicitly tells us that “the son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son.”
(Ezekiel 18:20).​

I have had to renew my mind, so that I do not feel guilty, or take the blame, for what happened to me in my life. I am learning to quit giving people an out to abandon me, before they have even thought to abandon me; because most of the time they have not. That insults people. I never wanted to push people away, or insult them, but I didn't trust. So, rather than wait for others to dismiss me, I set myself up to be dismissed; leaving many wounded in my wake--mostly me. Thank God, for the Word of God and the power of God to heal me and free me. What God did for me, He will do for you. There is an answer and a healing through Jesus Christ.

While the notion of generational curses is foreign to Scripture, there is a sense in which the curse of sin has been passed on from generation to generation. Through the first Adam, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Through the second Adam—Jesus Christ—atonement is offered to all. Says Paul, “Just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men” (Romans 5:18). Through no act of our own we are condemned; likewise, through no act of our own, we are saved (Romans 5:12–21).

Get the facts before you put those foundation stones in concrete. It's not what happened to you it's what you do with what happens to you that has the greatest impact! Leave a legacy with what you've been given.