‘I Believe’ Blessings found in ‘We’.
I have so many “best times” in my life, I’m very lucky.
In choosing one area of our lives where ‘I Believe’ we were truly blessed as a family, was our involvment in 4-H. After a long and hard prior year with Market Beef, our son’s steer won Grand Champion Market Beef. Being the proud parent and seeing the affect it had on him, made us realize that all of our support, and the support of 4H, helped shape him into a stronger, more self assured man he has become today. All his hard work and effort paid off as he not only received the top award, but was able to sell his steer at top dollar. He pushed thru the hard times of raising a beef, learned to handle a large animal and not be afraid, practiced teaching the animal to lead, fed and groomed the animal all on his own in order to show himself and us that he had what it took to accomplish this task. As it turned out, this was one of the greatest accomplishment in his young life. Knowing he could accomplish this one task set him up for many future accomplishments he would never have thought possible without this early training.
The same is true of our daughter, who won Queen at the Fair. She was involved in an automobile accident in her Senior year of High School, where she broke her neck. Being laid up most the the year in a neck brace and having to go thru surgery to fuse bones together, she still had the courage to try out for ‘Queen at the Fair’ with her horse. Not having ridden alot that year, her horse “took care of her” as she rode and she not only won Queen, but also the ‘Horsemanship Award’ and the ‘Personality Award’. The stamina and character she showed by not giving up and the follow thru she exhibited in order to accomplish her dreams, proved to us that not only were we blessed with a wonderful daughter, but we were also blessed by her example of determination and her accomplishments in the face of over-whelming deterrants.
Participating in 4-H activities helped teach us all that hard work, committment, responsibility and also persistence was a lesson worth learning and living. The rewards were outstanding and today the kids still strive to be the best they can be. They work hard, have great jobs, wonderful families and they are there for each other and will pass on those and other lessons to their children.
My hope is to be able to instill the same lessons in my grandchildren that were instilled in my children through 4-H and at home. In addition to the lessons we all learned from 4-H, we also learned that no one accomplishes all these things alone. We have learned that in addition to an organization like 4-H, friends and family are also an important support system for each of us to see us thru the tough times and the hard times as well as the good times.
So, in conclusion, ‘I Believe’ the most important lesson I feel we learned was that we are all “Family”. The kids won the awards, the ribbons, the crown for Queen, the feeling of being the Grand Champion, but we all worked TOGETHER ! We encouraged each other, we felt the sweat and tears when things didn’t go as they should, and we were happy and excited when they did. We were a “WE” and “WE” are all in this together – Friends, Family and a wonderful organization called 4-H!
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Barbara.
