Episode description

Today I'm sharing with you an experience I recently had with learning my family stories. They are deepening joy, resilience, and character for myself and for my children. I invite you to join me!

• Collect some of your family stories. You can read previously compiled stories, check out FamilySearch.org, or call a family member and learn from the source!
• My great-great-grandmother lost her husband in the 1918 flu pandemic. Due to her pregnancy, she was too at-risk to say her goodbyes to her husband. It hurt, but she kept going. She got remarried and lost multiple children in infancy/youth. When faced with yet another death of a child, she punched herself in the stomach and told herself, "Buck up, old girl. You've done this before. You can do this again."
• That phrase now comes to my mind when another tantrum, another spill, another mess comes my way. I can do this, and so can you!
• They help remind me of who I came from and what they overcame and what they accomplished, even though things were hard.
• They help in little ways to improve my character and choose to take on some of their traits, follow their example, and become more of the good that they were.
• It helps connect the present to the past. It creates deeper, richer, more grateful experiences.

FamilySearch.org