NEW GENERATIONS

Posted on by michellethurman2344
  • INTO INFINITY AND BEYOND, GENERATION TO GENERATION

This week my siblings and I welcomed our newest addition to our family. Baby brother just became a grandfather (he’s 63)! This is first male child to be born with our family name in more than 30 years. And his parents, my nephew and his wife, have given him one of my Dad’s names. So cool!

In the old days, under laws from before the days of sufferage, he would be the heir apparent in our family….if we had anything for him to inherit. As it is, he will continue our family name. I wonder what kind of world he will grow up in. We have generation X and Z. What will they call his generation? Maybe the generation of a new beginning? One can only hope.

My middle sister is already a great grandmother as she had three daughters, born when she was still in her twenties and two of them had daughters while they were still in their teens, and two of them had children while they were still in their teens. My daughter was born when I was 32 and she didn’t have her first born until she was 21. My granddaughter will be 19 towards the end of this year and isn’t ready to be a mom yet. That’s okay with me. But with my sister’s great grand children, I have known six generations of our family, and may very well live to know one or two more. How families do grow!!

  • AND THERE IS NO LONGER ANY SEA…REV. 21:1

I have been going through old family photos and have photos of my forefathers back into the mid 1800’s. I don’t know who most of them were, but I have been able to identify my great-great grandfathers from two sides of our family. I love finding out about these past generations. I knew my father’s maternal grandmother fairly well, having lived on her little farm as a very young child. I have photos of myself with her, following her about and wearing the type of sunbonnet pioneer women wore. I have photos of her with her daughters and her grandchildren and great grandchildren and it is obvious how she loved each of them. She lives very large within my memory.

God told Adam, and then later Noah, to multiply and fill the earth. I look at all the generations just in my own family, examine my own feelings about these people, past and present, and I think this is how HE must feel about all these millions who fill the earth today and in times gone by. HE loves the world….all of it. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world….”. We are His creation, and the children HE adopted through His Son, Jesus. We can reject Him if we choose, but why would we do that? I have trouble accepting that idea, but there are millions who have and do every day. How it would break my heart if my children and grandchildren rejected me. It must be a great sorrow to Him to see all those who choose darkness over His Light.

On the ‘bright’ side…millions have received the Love He poured out on them and we will spend eternity with those millions….a part of His family for all eternity; loving, rejoicing, living a life full of every good thing. And that is a good thought.

Rev. 21:1-5 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people and God Himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” and He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”

And all the people said…AMEN!!

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Published by michellethurman2344

I was born in California, but both my parents were born in different areas of rural Oklahoma. My father grew up on a small cattle ranch and my mother grew up in the hills of eastern Oklahoma near the Ozark Mts. Both were born in the 1920's when Oklahoma was still more a part of the 1800's than the twentieth century so I like to say I was born of parents who were the last generation born during the old west. Their old west roots had a huge impact on my childhood. I spent the first three years of my life on my Granny's chicken farm. She was my father's grandmother and she owned 60 acres of alfalfa which she rented out and lived on three acres of barnyard where she raised chickens. There was some electricity, but no indoor plumbing outside of a faucet in the kitchen. The toilet was down the boardwalk in a small shed...in other words...an outhouse. The shower was a room under the water tank in the pumphouse. Granny's little three room house was the only painted building on the property. Everything else was raw, unpainted wood including the two room house my parents lived in. And I loved living on that little farm where I pretty much had free run of the barnyard and sometimes even wandered into the fields surrounding it. The town where I was born is along the Colorado River in the middle of the California desert and across the river from the Arizona desert and while we did live there for the first 12 years of my life, we moved a lot due to my father's employment. He was a big equipment operator and we moved to where the work took him, but usually only six months of the year then we moved back to our hometown. We moved to Northern California in 1958 and I have lived here ever since. I am a mother, a grandmother, have one great-grandchild and recently retired. I am divorced and now live with my youngest sister. My sisters and I like to cruise and take road trips. I am enjoying my life.

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