Best Piece Of Advice I Received

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

The best piece of advice I was given was from an old native American. I was still suffering mentally from the effects of what my mother had done to me. That day was particularly difficult. Because of everything I was doing, I could hear her negative voice in my head repeating things she had told me as a child.

As I was speaking to about the severe pain on the side of my head. Thinking she would have an old type of treatment for me. She told me, “You know, you don’t have to carry the sins of your mother.”

Those words hit me like a ton of bricks. Because it was something I was doing and didn’t even realize it. Every time I heard my mother’s words, I would go into to shut down mode or have physical pain.

It wasn’t until later I read this in Deuteronomy 24:16,

“Parents are not to be put to death for their children, not children put to death for their parents each will die for their own sin.”

I was destroying myself because I thought I had to suffer because of what my mother, did and said to me, because she thought I was a failure then I thought I was