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Sons

Part 1

With having a son for merely 11 years, I’ve already learned so much about what makes a boy tick and how vast they dream and how big their imaginations are. Cole for one is so full of unbridled desire that we are daily learning how to guide and give path to it without taming it too much. We are learning how to give purpose to his impulse. Boys like to forge their own happiness in new ways. They aren’t content with settling with the ways others have already pioneered. Where I may rhetorically ask, “Why reinvent the wheel?” Cole will tell me a million reasons to reinvent the wheel. Though these inventions might bring him back to the originally time tested wheel, he has to learn it his way. The good thing about this is that when a boy does this, when he seeks Truth and is not kept out of the mud and grease of life to get there, when he comes full circle to that Truth, he knows it. He believes it. He would die for it with no more questions asked because it’s become something that’s a part of him and not something outside of him.  Our job as parents, and I’d say especially mothers, is not to bridle this spirit but to direct it towards that Truth we all seek, that Truth that sets us free to be fully human, to be what we were created to be and do….to Love and be happy with our Maker, with God. What a job! How do we do this? How did Mary do this for Jesus? She like Joseph gave him the tools. Joseph gave him a hammer and taught him the discipline and skill to build a house. Mary gave Him Fatih, Hope, and Love and taught him how to build a Kingdom that changed the world. And when, as a woman and mother, you seek, develop and share these virtues with your boys, the world will be changed one little super hero at a time.
Love your boys!

Seusical piece to follow…

Sons

Part 2

“To My Son”

The morning star is drawing you up.

Hear her shout?
Now’s the time; follow my rays.

Time to go out!

There’s color. There’s light.

There’s hope beyond dreams.
There’s courage and beauty;

There’s goodness. You’ll see.

It’s in you. You have it. It’s all around.
Just want it. Seek it. It will be found.

You must get up to see it.
You must get up to learn!
You must get up to be it.
It’s finally your turn!

You don’t yet know the acts between
Your opening lines and final scene.
But how you act and where you stand
In every set is in your hands.

You want to be a prince, maybe even a king?
You have a song that you want to sing.

You want to climb to the highest of peaks.
To challenge your bones to what your mind seeks.
To run far and run fast with all of your might,
Ever forward no glancing left or right.

You want to stand up when others are falling
from being too tired to go on anymore
You want to climb higher when others start crawling
You want to be the hero who rises and soars.

You’ve been gifted the tools that you need:
Kindness, hope, love, and belief.

You have all the tools.
They’ve been formed in your heart.
You know all the rules.
Now it’s time for your part.

Up, up you go! Out, out of your cave,
Generosity never thinks to save,
There’s no more time or sleep,
Come on! Those 2 never will keep.

It’s your daily choice to scale the walls of your fears.
To swim over and under your river of tears.
And when there’s a friend or brother in stress,
Have courage to love though your body needs rest.
You have words of truth and and hope to teach.
To guide and redeem the lost that you reach .

And then, little man, you’ll meet life’s desire,
burnt on your heart by your Maker’s pure fire.
You’ll conquer the darkness that limits yours sight.
And awake in the morning, donned a new Knight..