Inheritance

After reading a post from a foster parenting board, the topic of "INHERITANCE" really started to get under my skin. I looked up the word inheritance on Encarta Dictionary through my Word Document. It is defined as: "money, property, or a title that has been inherited or is to be inherited".
Honestly, I believe that some individuals have misinterpretated the word "title" to mean ENTITLEMENT.
As most of us know, the "common" person will not receive a "title" in the event of a death in the family. At least I don't have any Dukes or Duchesses in my family. At least none that I know of.
When I think of inheritance, I think of a legacy. Which is defined as "money or property that is left to somebody in a will". I like the second definition that it gives: "something that is handed down or remains from a previous generation or time".
I don't want to leave my children an inheritance. I want to leave them a legacy. Not money, property or stuff...
In Matthew 6:19 he tells us that we need to store our treasures in Heaven: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where theives do not break through nor steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also". (KJV)
My heart is with God and my family. I want to leave my family with something FROM me...from within me. My faith in God, my love for them. I want them to have a piece of me...not something that will fade away with time.
A few years back, I gave my mom a journal. I asked her to write down things that happened in her childhood, teens, good and bad memories. I don't want her things when she passes. I was a piece of her! I want her story.
I pray that is something that I can pass on to my children. Because in the end, stuff is just stuff....in my case...it is junk. Nothing is worth more to me that the person.