WHEN I GROW UP.....

The Grandbaby was visiting the other day and went outside in the shade to play ball with The Poppa. We get a lot of insight from The Grandbaby on most days if we only listen.  While playing ball, she said to The Poppa, "I want to learn to play ball so some day I can 'teached' my little girl how to play ball."  Ahhh....be still my heart.  But, at four years old, I guess it seems a bit of an odd thought to have but haven't we all had such thoughts in our lives?

Different stages of life garner us different "wishes".  As a teenager I imagine I was like any other teenage girl--wanting to wear nylons, makeup, cool clothing.  With strict parents, I was a bit behind others in doing such things.  But to coin a much used phrase from The Grandbaby, "But that's okay."  Yes, wisdom in a four year old...

As I got older, I imagined myself looking like a model from the Sears catalog in various clothing choices.  Did I really look like them?  Uh, no, not even close.  I was not willow thin, nor was my makeup done professionally.  I think I and others often look and base judgements on the outward appearance.  As I made a quick trip to the local discount store and saw a bright orange swimsuit on the rack by the aisle, I got a chuckle as, since I have aged, I am realistic that I could never wear that.  I would look like an orange blimp with sags and bags and road map legs.  Age often makes one realistic.  Am I there?  Uh, yes, for sure.

That bathing suit got me to thinking.  I may be close to medicare age, really close to medicare age, but I'm still growing.  I'm looking this week toward two diagnostic MRI's (no, I am not near to being excited about hours in a tube) to show intensity of a few problems with my spine and hip.  That pain has affected life for me negatively in the past months.  Even at that, I still have aspirations for qualities to grow into more.  So in keeping with those thoughts, when I grow up, I want to be:

a better driver,

kinder,

quieter in my opinions,

more faithful,

less judgmental,

more loving,

more patient--uh huh,

wiser,

quieter in my opinions,

more knowledgeable of God's Word,

oh, so much more thankful for EVERYTHING,

more of a servant,

a better wife, mother, neema, daughter, sister, friend and child of my heavenly Father.

The list is definitely as other lists tend to be--endless.  So how about you?  What do you want to be when YOU grow up?

"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him:  for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."             1 Samuel 16:7

Consider....