Our Kids are still under construction!
Have you ever heard the song, “I am a promise?” by the Gaithers:
I am a promise,
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital “P”;
I can be anything, anything God wants me to be…
You are a promise!
You are a possibility!
You are a promise with a capital “P”!
You are a great big bundle of potentiality!
And if you’ll listen, you’ll hear God’s voice;
And if you’re trying, he’ll help you make the right choices
You’re a promise to be anything He wants you to be!
You can go anywhere that he wants you to go,
You can be anything that he wants you to be —
You can climb the high mountain,
You can cross the wide sea,
You’re a great big promise you see!
I am a promise,
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital “P”!
I am a great big bundle of potentiality!
And I am learning to hear God’s voice and I am tryin’
To make the right choices;
I’m a promise to be anything God wants me to be!
So keep on list’ning, you’ll hear God’s voice,
And keep on tryin’, He’ll help you make the right choices —
You’re a promise to be anything He wants you to be!
I’m a promise to be anything God wants me to be!
You’re a promise to be anything, anything He wants you to be!
This song just rings with truth. Our kids have the potential to do or to be anything! That is if we do not sabotage them. Make their home environment, (or construction site), a safe place to dream. Not just our children but our friends also. Dreams and plans are the things we aspire to. When someone comes along and throws water on our fires of determination, it can ruin everything, including a persons self confidence.
You have to ask yourself what you have achieved by bursting their bubble? What kind of satisfaction did you receive? Is it because you never reached for your dreams, so you don’t want anyone else to achieve theirs? You can not turn back the hands of time, but you can help others be all that they can be, by being an encourager. Be the person who builds people up and doesn’t tear down. I can guarantee that you will find great satisfaction in doing so. This cute little song not only speaks to children, but to everyone. If you are not dead you still have potential to achieve things you aspire to!
As parents we need to teach our children to be encouragers, and not to point out peoples short comings or personal defects. The golden rule applies to us and to our children, ‘Do unto others, as you would have others, do unto you.’ How do you and your children want to be treated by others? Lets use that as our measuring stick.
We as writers hold the privileged position of showing people what determination and resolution can do. Through our characters, we can beat the odds, and have them accomplish whatever they set out to do. Our stories need an encourager so they can also be a role model, besides the hero or heroine.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4:8
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
I Thessalonians 5:11
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Hebrews 10:23-24