New Year? Do the impossible.

On New Year’s Day, my family and I were headed to Grandma’s house for a weekend visit.
Packing suitcases and cars for even a three day visit can be challenging. Trying to get on the road for this five hour trip for us has always been a battle, even more so now with three children. My oldest child is six years old, and I like to challenge him. I think boys need constant challenging to keep them striving to be better and to fight back complacency. So I told my son, “When you’re finished brushing your hair take you and your sister’s suit case, along with your little brother’s and put them in the car. I was changing the baby’s diaper and had my back turned so I failed to see that once he finished brushing his hair, there he was in the upstairs hallway trying to mange taking both suit cases down the stairs…..(I wish I had let him finish because wound up leaving his and his sisters clothes right there)

His mom said boy leave those suit cases alone. I laughed and told him I was joking. His mom didn’t find it as funny as I did. I told him that I was only joking with him. I asked him “What were you going to do once you got downstairs (three flights) and made It to the door?” ‘I was going to put them down and open the door.’ “Well ok then”, I further prodded, “once you got outside to the car what would you have done?” ‘I was going to put the suitcases down and come inside and ask you for the keys.’

What struck me most about this episode was my son’s eagerness to accomplish this task. He was willing to try to do something he had never done before in his life. Although he’s only seen it done before, even though he is too short, not strong enough and not old enough and just poorly equipped to accomplish the task he took the assignment without flinching. He was ready and willing even if he was unable, that counts for a lot.

So don’t get upset when someone who seems to you totally un-prepared and un- equipped to handle the job shows. It’s been said that 99% of success is just showing up, I think at least half of the remaining one percent is being willing to do whatever is required.
And the next time someone asks you to do something you think is impossible for you to accomplish, remember that [you] with God all things are possible!