Sometimes we have to get out from under the shadows of our mothers and fathers in order to do what our Heavenly Father is doing.
There comes a point where what was done in the past no longer serves the present. There comes a point where must reckon with the fact that our emulation has become parody, to the loss of our true selves that God has created us to be for the sake of the world.
Our mothers and fathers were themselves for their world; we must be ourselves for our world. We cannot be them for our world. That is an impossibility because it is based in non-reality. The only reality we have in which to walk in the light of God is now. Not in the past. Not in the future. Now.
If we get out from under their shadows, it is not out of disdain for who they were and what they did amd how they did it amdnfor what reasons, but rather we honor them by stepping out from their shadows in order to follow the same Spirit that they followed out into the light.
