It is necessary to let our roots bless us. This is true not only if those roots were healthy but even if they were negative or positively abusive. One of the great anthropological imperatives, innate in human nature, is that we eventually must make peace with the family. No matter how bad your father and mother may have been, some day you have to stand by their graveside and recognize what they gave you, forgive what they did to you, and receive the spirit that is in your life because of them.
