Big Moments
Thanksgiving tales around the table remind us of our ancestry.  We recall all the larger than life people who have in some way passed genes or personality traits on to us.  Of course, the tales are like sagas which get bigger and bigger and more bizarre or more heroic as the years pass.However, they do hold some truth and offer some help for us in looking at who we are.  What are the stories from your family that you can identify as describing something essential about yourself?  This might be a good piece of your discernment.  Who are you?  At the same time we are not determined by our ancestry.  We may find that we are quite different from th