Yesterday was Mother’s Day and if you have a mom in your life, I hope you celebrate her with gusto. She deserves it. We celebrated moms in our own way here at First Baptist Oakboro including this conversation about how we can structure our families in such a way as to make the passing on of the faith from one generation to the next a safer bet than it sometimes is. Keep reading to find out how.
Passing the Torch
One of the national highlights when a particular country gets to host the Olympic Games is the Olympic Torch. Each Olympics, the climax of the opening ceremonies is the lighting of the Olympic Torch. The main flame is always lit by a smaller torch that has usually been on a journey across the host nation. It has been passed from runner-to-runner, hand-to-hand, until it arrives at the Opening Ceremony and accomplishes its intended aim. The journey the torch takes, though, is not one that any single runner could accomplish as a solo venture. It must be handed off or it will eventually fall to the ground. Our lives are a little like that. We can only carry ourselves and the things that are important to us so far before they have to be passed on to someone else. If we don’t, everything we count as dear will eventually fall to the ground and be left there where it will eventually be trampled and forgotten. Now, just because we have designs on passing what’s important to us on to the generation that follows doesn’t guarantee a smooth or easy passing, but making no such plans guarantees that nothing will happen.
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The Nexus 