I look back over the years and I wonder where has the time gone. My son graduates from high school next year. It seems like just yesterday I was taking to him to kindergarten. I am reminded of the many things that have happened over the years to help him grow. The activities he has been involved in during his years at school--soccer, basketball, boy scouts (oh! all that popcorn) I am reminded about the things his friend's parents have said about him--how kind, considerate, and helpful he has been. I am reminded of other ways he has shown kindness to others--he stayed late with a friend, who was having car problems, after a football game until her parents arrived and he has offered to do many things around the house, just to help us out. I am reminded of the accidents he has been involved in--dislocated shoulder, swollen ankle(3 times) from twisting it in basketball, and the "tackle" with a tree playing football (the tree won).
I am reminded of the education he received during his first 6 years at a private Christian school, that helped to teach him the Christian way to treat others and to be respectful of others. I am sadden that when he started public school in the 6th grade and made new friends, that he started to drift away from God and did not want to attend church anymore. Although I wanted him in church, I was not going to push him into it, I want him to come to church because he wants to be there not because I force him. I don't want to take the chance that it may push him farther away from God.
I am very proud of the man that he has become. Although he does not attend church, it has been taught to him, in school and at home, and my prayer that one day, God will move in his life and all that he has been taught will re-surface and he will rededicate his life back to God.
Lord bless you
