People occasionally ask what Daniel and I hope to leave our children, and I understand why — he builds real, tangible things for a living, and it is natural to wonder about the legacy in financial terms. But the honest answer has almost nothing to do with money.
Moses instructed the Israelites to teach God’s commands to their children not as a formal lesson but woven into ordinary life — “when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). That is the model I actually believe in: faith caught in the texture of daily life, not just taught in a single formal conversation.
What I want my children to inherit is a working, lived-out example of a marriage that stays honest through hard seasons, a faith that holds up under real pressure rather than only in comfortable ones, and the plain conviction that they are loved regardless of performance. I want them to inherit the habit of prayer before the habit of profit.
I cannot guarantee any of that takes root. Proverbs 22:6 is a proverb, a general pattern, not an ironclad promise — I know families who did everything right and still watched a child wander. But I would rather spend my energy trying to plant that inheritance than any other kind, and trust God with what grows from it.