I asked Firstborn if he had any
ideas of what he wanted to do after high school and he said he didn’t know.
Hmmm…Sweetie, you’re in the eleventh
grade, you don’t have long. He then asked about the Army. I told him I only
knew about the service I served in, the Navy. Of course I favor the Navy, but in
times like these, I just want my children to have security – spiritual and
financial security.
Firstborn is only 15, so I’m not surprised he doesn’t have
his life mapped out. I pulled up the Army website to view the available careers
and also saw one of the Army commercials stating to be all you can be. I was
thinking of myself more than Firstborn as I watched the commercial. Am I being
all I can be? As a woman, wife, mother, servant of God, sister, daughter,
friend, and writer, am I giving God my best? Am I in a position to allow God to
pull everything out of me that He’s placed in me? Am I living at the optimum level I was
created for? Just as I reminded Firstborn that he didn’t have long, I don’t have
long on this wonderful planet Earth, so I
better get it together. I can’t expect Firstborn to be all he can be if I’m not
doing the same. As his mother, I should be able to boldly say, “Do as I do and as I say.” From the simplest of tasks to the most
demanding, I must be an example – I must be all I can be.
It doesn’t matter how
old we are, God is never finished
with us. There is always another opportunity, another endeavor, and another
chance – there is always a next in
life! Today is a new day, let’s be all we can be – one day at a time!
