I have potential with a Capital P
Preachers kid=
Always behaved NOT!.. Or dad will call you out in church, and we all knew what that meant. I found out the hard way.
Always the onc to start note passing in the teen section
Always, the church clown in the children's department and youth.
Always at church when the doors are opened, even when their not.
Always used for dad's sermons, so when you did something that week. you always knew it would be in his sermons, so you sat in back to sink down in the pew.
Always looked at in Sunday School when questions were asked, I mean your the P.K. you should know all the answers.
Always picked to do the special at least once a month, didn't matter if you could sing on key or not. you were the pastors kid, so if you didn't play an instrument you sang. It's in the P.K. rule book look it up. =).
There has been a song today that has ran through my mind, and each time it runs I see my pigtails, (TIGHT because lord knows the tighter the better, if you didn't have squinted eyes from the tightness it wasn't tight enough. ) huge smile because I was about to sing the same song AGAIN and I knew it by heart, because well; my dad liked my singing, and he insisted that talent used. This one song, known by many in my dad's church goes like this.
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 learnin' to hear God's voice
And I am tryin' to make the right choice
I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.
I can go anywhere that He wants me to go
I can be anything He wants me to be
I can climb the high mountains
I can cross the wide sea
I'm a great big promise you see!
Back then I had no idea where I wanted to go, or what I wanted to do in my life. I just knew I loved Cheerleading and sports, hated cooking and anything inside. If my possibility was to be outside, I was good with that. So I sang at the top of my lungs every Sunday at least once a month.
Today, It means a little more to me, then it did back in the pigtail, big eyed days. It reminded me today, how much God loves me, how much he cares. I'm still learn' to hear God's voice, and still try'n to make the right choices. Because I have major potentiality with a BIG CAPITAL P. God is the same God he was 30 years ago, he still sees potentiality in each of us. No matter if we make wrong choices, or miss his voice in decisions made. He is still there, holding us up, cheering us through to the next hurdle in the road. even when we trip over the hurdle, and all who know me, knows I'm pretty good at the falling thing. =).
A few weeks ago, ( YES IT"S A LIFE STORY I have many of them coming from the Ross and Setser family) I woke up in a wonderful mood, went out to the pool in the cool air sipping coffee; enjoying my time with God. Just about the time I decided it was time to come in, I walked down the deck stairs, and I guess my feet got faster then the rest of me, GO FIGURE!. I went flying down the stairs right on my bumm, then smack right in the middle of my back. What a sight it was with me laying there face up, trying to say something with no air. Then finally getting something out, screaming Keith's name over and over again. Then remembering " oh wait Elijah's sleeping in the family room" ELIJAH!! still nothing for 10 minutes I layed there screaming and crying in pain. I finally got up, and went up the stairs in tears telling my knight in shinning armor how he missed his chance to be the hero. Amused by the situation, he began asking how, and why didn't I call? UMMM hello I screamed your name for 10 minutes, not my fault we're not in Hawaii any longer and they close windows and turn A/C on here in VA..
How many times do we get caught doing the same thing in our own lives, making a choice without consulting God, falling flat on our backs THEN calling him to help. The only difference is God can hear past the A/C and windows, he can hear past all the junk in our lives. We call on God, and if we are willing he is there to pick us up, dust us off and put us back on road to recovery. He never misses his chance to be our hero, our father, our protector.
We are made to do great and wonderful things, God made us to glorify him and praise him. He made us to want to call on him for the good and bad times. We have great potential in our fathers eyes, and he's going to use your potential to fulfil his will if you just let him. I have a big problem with staying still, always moving or doing something, but I'm learning slowly to begin my day before hyperness
Always behaved NOT!.. Or dad will call you out in church, and we all knew what that meant. I found out the hard way.
Always the onc to start note passing in the teen section
Always, the church clown in the children's department and youth.
Always at church when the doors are opened, even when their not.
Always used for dad's sermons, so when you did something that week. you always knew it would be in his sermons, so you sat in back to sink down in the pew.
Always looked at in Sunday School when questions were asked, I mean your the P.K. you should know all the answers.
Always picked to do the special at least once a month, didn't matter if you could sing on key or not. you were the pastors kid, so if you didn't play an instrument you sang. It's in the P.K. rule book look it up. =).
There has been a song today that has ran through my mind, and each time it runs I see my pigtails, (TIGHT because lord knows the tighter the better, if you didn't have squinted eyes from the tightness it wasn't tight enough. ) huge smile because I was about to sing the same song AGAIN and I knew it by heart, because well; my dad liked my singing, and he insisted that talent used. This one song, known by many in my dad's church goes like this.
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 learnin' to hear God's voice
And I am tryin' to make the right choice
I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.
I can go anywhere that He wants me to go
I can be anything He wants me to be
I can climb the high mountains
I can cross the wide sea
I'm a great big promise you see!
Back then I had no idea where I wanted to go, or what I wanted to do in my life. I just knew I loved Cheerleading and sports, hated cooking and anything inside. If my possibility was to be outside, I was good with that. So I sang at the top of my lungs every Sunday at least once a month.
Today, It means a little more to me, then it did back in the pigtail, big eyed days. It reminded me today, how much God loves me, how much he cares. I'm still learn' to hear God's voice, and still try'n to make the right choices. Because I have major potentiality with a BIG CAPITAL P. God is the same God he was 30 years ago, he still sees potentiality in each of us. No matter if we make wrong choices, or miss his voice in decisions made. He is still there, holding us up, cheering us through to the next hurdle in the road. even when we trip over the hurdle, and all who know me, knows I'm pretty good at the falling thing. =).
A few weeks ago, ( YES IT"S A LIFE STORY I have many of them coming from the Ross and Setser family) I woke up in a wonderful mood, went out to the pool in the cool air sipping coffee; enjoying my time with God. Just about the time I decided it was time to come in, I walked down the deck stairs, and I guess my feet got faster then the rest of me, GO FIGURE!. I went flying down the stairs right on my bumm, then smack right in the middle of my back. What a sight it was with me laying there face up, trying to say something with no air. Then finally getting something out, screaming Keith's name over and over again. Then remembering " oh wait Elijah's sleeping in the family room" ELIJAH!! still nothing for 10 minutes I layed there screaming and crying in pain. I finally got up, and went up the stairs in tears telling my knight in shinning armor how he missed his chance to be the hero. Amused by the situation, he began asking how, and why didn't I call? UMMM hello I screamed your name for 10 minutes, not my fault we're not in Hawaii any longer and they close windows and turn A/C on here in VA..
How many times do we get caught doing the same thing in our own lives, making a choice without consulting God, falling flat on our backs THEN calling him to help. The only difference is God can hear past the A/C and windows, he can hear past all the junk in our lives. We call on God, and if we are willing he is there to pick us up, dust us off and put us back on road to recovery. He never misses his chance to be our hero, our father, our protector.
We are made to do great and wonderful things, God made us to glorify him and praise him. He made us to want to call on him for the good and bad times. We have great potential in our fathers eyes, and he's going to use your potential to fulfil his will if you just let him. I have a big problem with staying still, always moving or doing something, but I'm learning slowly to begin my day before hyperness
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