Family Dynamics

I've been reflecting upon the the nature of family dynamics over the past couple of weeks after spending some time with my parents and sister and brother and their family's in Idaho. I spent a lot of time asking my parents about their families growing up. I never really new my grandparents and so I was asking about what they were like. It was interesting then to have them get out old pictures so that I could put faces to the personalities that they were telling me about.
As I heard about my grandparents I thought, well that begins to make sense of who my parents are/were while I was growing up. So then I began to wonder about what my children will say about Kathy and I? Will they look back on their growing up and think about their grandparents and say, "Now it all makes sense!" or will they say, "My parents aren't anything like their parents." I'm not sure I know how it will all turn out, but I know that I'm spending more time trying to figure out who I am, why I am the way that I am, and who it is that God wants me to become in the image of Christ.
All of this is coming together as I'm planning on leading a Wednesday night class after Easter on "Family Mapping: Why we are who we are." It should be fun.