The sins of the father.

What if you've been thinking about this idea and verse all wrong? For so long, I did.

I literally wrote a note in my Kindle last night that said, “I thought I was the only one!”

Have you ever felt that? Maybe you’ve had a thought or an experience that you’ve coddled for years, decades even, like a soft pet. It’s not necessarily that you’ve wanted to keep it hidden, but you thought you were the only one who knew how to take care of it. And then, for some reason—usually by accident—it’s revealed that you aren’t the only one. There are others who feel the same way about their little “pet” and have the same level of care.

Maybe that isn’t the perfect analogy, but it’s what comes to mind. And that’s how I felt last night.

I’m in the process of reading

Gina Birkemeier

’s book, “Generations Deep: Unmasking Inherited Dysfunction and Trauma to Rewrite Our Stories Through Faith and Therapy.” I’m not too far into it, but it’s already fantastic.

That was made especially obvious in the prologue. That’s when and where I had the epiphany that I’m not the only one. “Not the only one that what?” I’m gl…