You have probably heard of the term “Paying It Forward”, “it” being kindness, a good deed, an investment in the future, a brief relationship-building gesture aimed at a stranger.  The classic example is paying the toll for the driver behind you on a toll road, someone you have never met and most likely will never see again.  This week, I want to consider the concept of paying it backward, when the word “it” refers to those gifts that we have received from our spiritual ancestors.  You will discover that there are similarities to the action of paying it forward.  Are their differences, other than the obvious one of which time frame we are considering, past or future?  What better opportunity to consider how we pay it backward than this Thanksgiving Sunday — Thanksgiving in Transylvania, that is?