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Have you clicked on the 'watch thread' at the top of the page? But even though I do that I seem to be unable to find things again. I start new threads but they seem to get lost in all the other controversial stuff that's on here.
How wonderful for you that you whole family is saved. Whos was first, you or them? I am still praying for my three and their partners and seven grandkids and their partners - those that have them. I have discovered that your boundaries seem to shrink as you get older but we should all carry on being happy with what we can do rather than bemoaning what we can't.
Talk to them about your early years. That history is yours and if you don't tell them how it is was, likely they will never know or understand!
Yes I wish I knew more about my parents and grandparents. I made a family history online and printed it off for them. You could perhaps try that too. My 11 and 14 year old grandkids like to here stories from our past when they visit. Sometimes they can't believe the things we got up to or the way we lived back then. I think yours would be interested too. I wished I'd asked more when I had the chance, and I wish my lot asked more too. But that's the way of things, we never really get to know our parents as people just mum and dad.
I have done this beginning many years ago to write an autobiography on the computer. Included in it or attached in related writings are the stories I have recalled from older family members as they were told to me. I wish that I had taken more interest when I was younger. By the time I started really writing most of the people who told me things of their own histories were already gone... no longer available to ask questions in order to obtain more details. Nonetheless what I have written is lengthy and I continue to expand it periodically. I often attach to it some of the things I have read on this and other forums over the years.
The Scriptures make all the difference to one's outlook, don't they?
I think the war years made a lot of difference in some ways; in wartime things sometimes happened in personal relations which wouldn't have happened previously in peacetime.
And it makes all the difference when you have a good bible teaching pastor to guide you through the scriptures. I've been blessed in that both churches I have been a member of have had good bible based teaching so I know I have a good foundation. I pray that my three kids and seven grandkids could know the grace of God as I do. And their partners too.
I don't think it was the war farouk, I think it more that people of my generation were discouraged from asking questions. I was 21 when I discovered that both my parents had had another child by a previous partner and that they had been together for 13 years before they married when I was on the way. And the woman I'd thought was my auntie was in fact my sister. I don't think that many families keep secrets like that these days.
Maybe this was post-war in your family's case, then.
Mine is independent, non-denominational, evangelistic, moving in the gifts of the Spirit.
Right now I cannot say that any one of my current children or grandchildren will be interested enough to take the time to read it all. It can be hard to predict what a young person will do later on... Right now they're all too busy to be bothered. I guess I was as well at their ages.That is a wonderful thing you are doing, documenting your history. One of my younger brothers did the ancestry.com thing and came up with all kinds of stuff. I no longer have any aunts or uncles left on either my mom or dads side. My parents dies fairly young and close together. I cannot tell you how many questions I never asked
