That’s a hard one because i think the answer has to be yes and no. Yes there are parts of my parents i’d really hope show up in me but there are others that I pray never surface. I was out getting a fathers day card yesterday and had a really hard time expressing how i feel about my father. What was even more interesting was listening to some of the really broken conversations that were going on around me on the topic of fathers. It was heart breaking. Come lord Jesus.

I think my answer would be the same. I’m sure anyone would take the best of someone and leave the rest. The most important part of that question is wanting to change the aspects that you wouldn’t want. Having the desire to want to do things different than our parents. We should constantly be impoving ourselves. The worst part is when we see things in ourselves that we don’t want from our parents….scary. CHANGE IS GOOD

Yes to almost everything. My dad is a pretty cool Godly man. But I’m who God made me.

That is a good question and as a teenager, I could not think of much that I would like to be like with my parents. Later on though after leaving home, my appreciation and love for them grew and I saw them as much wiser and one’s who could speak into my life from experience. Now that they are with the Lord and have passed from this life, I have even a deeper respect for them and the things they left behind in my life. They were not perfect, but I am proud of my father as a WWII veteran and a hard working man with a good sense of humor. My mother was a rock who persevered in her faith and left behind a real legacy in our family. So in some ways time does put things in a different perspective on how I have grown to admire my parents and what they left behind.