I have had opportunity over the last four years to spend a lot of time with my kids in vehicles, particularly on our way back and forth to doctoring visits.\u00a0 A week ago, I had such an opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0 Spending\u00a0eight hours in a vehicle with a teenage boy can result in some pretty\u00a0amazing conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most\u00a0recent trip had us conversing for hours on end the merits of various super-powers we would like\u00a0should God decide to give\u00a0us that opportunity someday.\u00a0 We giggled as we spoke about what\u00a0Sawyer thought my super powers would be.\u00a0 He\u00a0felt that since I had a proclivity to rescuing animals, particularly cats and kittens, that my super powers would have something to do with that.\u00a0 I finally had to convince him that if I was stuck with cat rescue for my super power, couldn’t I, at the very least, get some super cheetah speed?\u00a0<\/p>\n
A few more miles down the road, and he had the perfect road-worthy discussion question.\u00a0 “Of all the Batman actors, which one was your favorite, Mom?”\u00a0 The response was swift, “Hands-down, Adam West. What is not to love about the Pow! Kablam! era of Batman?” A few more miles down the road, my own teen boy wonder was sound asleep after 4 hours of doctor appointments.\u00a0 His words, however, were resonating in my head as I drove on.\u00a0 How true were his remarks!\u00a0 Over the next hours, I really thought about how our perceptions filter into our reality.\u00a0 If we believe that we can do something, we typically can. But\u00a0how many times do we doubt our own abilities?<\/p>\n The Bible is full of doubters.\u00a0 Moses, Sarah,\u00a0David’s brothers, Zechariah . . . but every time God showed his super POWER to equip\u00a0by fulfilling His promises to them or their families.\u00a0 Moses, who had a speech impediment, was called of God to lead the Israelites.\u00a0 Sarah, who was of extreme age, was called to be the mother of a nation.\u00a0 David’s brothers thought it laughable that a tiny pipsqueak of a boy was getting too large for his britches to think he coul take on Goliath.\u00a0 Zechariah doubted that his childless, older-than-average wife would have a baby,\u00a0yet she\u00a0became the mother of John the Baptist.\u00a0 There are countless others recorded in the Bible, but there are also so many, even today, not recorded who doubt what God is calling them to do.<\/p>\n I have been among those.\u00a0 I was perfectly content to be a wife, mom, and teacher.\u00a0When God “called”, I wasn’t sure I could be the person to write and speak about Him and share His story with others.\u00a0 I’m not trained in either of those areas, and English (or Language Arts) was my worst subject in school.\u00a0 Additionally, I just like to be at home.\u00a0To magnify my weaknesses, I am a homebody who isn’t good\u00a0with words all the time and who also has\u00a0love handles herself.\u00a0\u00a0But just like each of those characters, at some point, I came to\u00a0understand that if God is\u00a0wanted me to do this, why wouldn’t He give the abilities to do it?\u00a0(Okay, I would have to work on the love handles on own.)<\/p>\n I took a leap of faith, and God has provided the writing and speaking materials.\u00a0 Moreover, He\u00a0has given me and my children real-life examples of people doing amazing things that no one believed possible.\u00a0 Friends who have overcome great disappointments, tragedies, life circumstances, and doubts to go on to do incredible things. Role models that have\u00a0shared with me that they too doubted they could pull off their feats, but with God’s help the sky was truly the limit.\u00a0 So while, I may never master the fine art of using the grappling hook like Adam West and Burt Ward, I\u00a0CAN<\/em><\/strong> always lean on the one, true super HERO to find the strength to do all things that are possible through him.\u00a0<\/p>\n Instead of waiting for whom we believe to be the right person, maybe we could all step back and realize that the right person\u00a0blessed with\u00a0God’s power might be the one staring back at us (wrinkles and gray roots included) in the mirror.\u00a0 \u00a0Now if all did that, no\u00a0power\u00a0could ever stop us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have had opportunity over the last four years to spend a lot of time with my kids in vehicles, particularly on our way back and forth to doctoring visits.\u00a0 A week ago, I had such an opportunity.\u00a0\u00a0 Spending\u00a0eight hours in a vehicle with a teenage boy can result in some pretty\u00a0amazing conversations.\u00a0 The most\u00a0recent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[82,198,258,423,599],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMy son agreed that was his favorite Batman, but his reasoning took me by surprise.\u00a0 “Seriously, Mom.\u00a0 With his small potbelly and love handles, Adam West’s Batman, makes me believe that I<\/em><\/strong> could actually be a superhero?”<\/p>\n