Wouldn't you like to give a BIG inheritance to your kids? Three inheritances you will pass to your children. 1) Stuff 2) Family Culture 3) The Self Instinct.

First, lets talk "stuff." Your kids may inherit your furniture, your savings, and your Tupperware - and they will value it, store it, sell it, or toss it out. The second inheritance, "family culture" is not so easy to abandon. This includes such visible culture as enthusiasm for sports, eating, and Sabbath traditions. It also includes invisible culture such as habits of total faith in hard times, family loyalty, and love shown to aging parents. Family culture is about as hard to "throw out" as the family album.

But even deeper yet, is the inheritance you will pass on of "Self Instinct." The Self Instinct, is that which tends to look after one's own interests despite its pain to others. Kids can inherit from their moms and dads a high Self Instinct - which probably rarely invites a stranger home for Sabbath lunch, rarely gives money that isn't tax deductible, and usually would be the last to volunteer to house a needy person in their basement for a month. Or on the other hand, with God's help kids can inherit a low self instinct.

If a parent is a servant to the migrant worker, to the elderly, and the refugee, than these instincts of selflessness will weave themselves into the very fabric of their child's identity. As a child beholds, they become. What kind of inheritance is your child amassing today? "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

May you and your children be blessed as you walk and talk through the treasure laden "beaches" of Mission Island.