The question on all our minds most of the time when forecasting the outcome of one generation succeeding another is whether or not family values, cultural ties and tradition would be maintained.
Even if DNA and other biological features prevail it is hard to tell whether our mannerisms and perspectives in life would die in our generation or stay on through many more to come.
Nowadays there is growing pressure on all of us to ensure that our children steer away from our failures and our mistakes.
Like our fathers and fore fathers we desperately try to change the pattern of our children's lives reflecting on times past and vowing never to see our children suffer the hardship that we endured.
It is a good omen to desire a better world where things are easier and where we each respect one another but it is a bad omen to believe times past and the hardship we came through was a catastrophe in our lives.
It is so easy to forget that if we had not endured what we did then we won't be in a position to have the wisdom and better judgment to pass on to future generations.
In other words the spiritual delineation is overlooked.
We choose what was culturally correct, traditionally positive to reflect on and forget to tell our stories in the honesty in which they occurred.
The truth is we are afraid of being looked upon as failures by our children and future generations so we make our past reflect only what we consider to be good in the flesh hoping that one day our epitaphs would portray imagery of bravery, love and devotion to a good course.
Who is to tell that by not trusting the instincts of our children and allowing them to face some of the trepidations in life that we undertook we are not preventing them from spiritual growth and their understanding of the word of God.
In a way we seek sympathy from future generations for our mistakes when they should not be considered as mistakes but another time in life, another experience and another spiritual voyage.
In those times be they good or bad we did what we did because we thought that we were correct in our judgment what future generations would do when faced with the same problem would depend on their judgment.
The fact remains that unlike the biological features that depict generation to generation spiritual reproduction comes directly from the Lord.
Through him we are all called to God and to the understanding of the word of God.
This is not a family tree that goes on into infinity to discover our roots or bearings but a family tree that is perfected in an instant, a second just by accepting the word of God.
As man we move away from these spiritual characteristics when we hide away from the truth, cover the bad in the past believing that we are protecting our children from the tribulations in life.
What is to come in their lives would unfold be it good or bad but we must all learn that the spiritual generation is only two steps back, through our Lord Jesus Christ we can reach God.
In doing so the bad in the past is not viewed as bad but another time and another experience with the Lord in the hope that the future would be something similar.