Take A Breath and Look UP...
Summer is officially over and today is the first day of school. AGH! UGH! (and insert many, many tears here). Yes I hate this day! I am not your typical mom who can't wait for this day each year... I am not the one who has the champagne chilling next to the orange juice in the frigelator (JPism for Refrigerator)! No, I am actually quite opposite. The first day brings up so many emotions for me, but the biggest one is My Boys are Growing Up! This saddens my heart. It is a wonderful time, yes, because we can reflect on how much they have matured or developed or whatever...but it is a constant reminder to me that time is running past me and before I know it they will be going to College and preparing to live the life God intended for them. Trey and I 's job will (kind of) be done.
When I meditate on that, I start to think about who will they be, what will they become, who will they marry and then I just get way ahead of myself and I have to reel myself back in and say slow down Amy! So I take a deep breath and look up and simply pray, "Lord, thank you for our beautiful boys and for having faith in us to bring them up. I pray that as this year starts, they will remain steadfast in their foundation of you and they will go out into this world and be an instrument for you. I pray Lord that their peers, their teachers, their coaches, and whomever they encounter, will see you in them. I pray they will be Leaders and not followers. I pray for their Health and for their hearts Lord and I give them to you...Please make them instruments for you and protect and guide them this School year. In Jesus Name I Pray, Amen"
Remember who you are and what God Expects you to become. You are a child of promise. You are a man of might. You are a Son of God.-Thomas S. Monson
