My oldest son graduated from Dixie State College with an Associate Degree of Science and he graduated from LDS Seminary in the past week! He is on a bus with all the high school seniors on his way to Disney Land for a couple of days and then to Knottsberry Farm before returning home late Saturday night. He has enjoyed his high school experience all the way along, although he has not walked the normal path! He did not graduate from High School today as his classmates did because the State School Board is rejecting his college Biology credit because it didn't include a Lab, they won't count the college English classes for his 9th Grade English credit, nor will they count Math 1010 or 1050 for 9th grade Math. Ridiculous to me, but given the choice of a high school diploma or an Associates Degree, I am grateful that he has spent the last year in college classes and not doing makeup classes for 9th grade work they won't accept from any other source! This means that today he didn't get to walk in the high school graduation with all his friends. I think he is ok. We weren't going to even go, but J wanted to, and we had to go to town for something else, and decided we didn't want him sitting there all alone, so we went late (and never found him!). We only heard a couple of the talks, but the closing one quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
The Trail Blazer often stands alone. J is an Eagle who soars high! It's lonely at the top. I hope he will always remember that when he thinks he is walking alone, he is not really alone at all. When he has been brave enough to walk the path alone, following the Holy Spirit, he is not alone at all, rather he is walking with God! I am grateful that he gets to be a part of the trip over these next couple of days. He is two years ahead of the others in his class! He has a year before his mission. I wonder what adventures it holds!? During the past two weeks we have definitely built significant Cairns we will remember and J has certainly blazed a trail that is not a walk in the park! The trail he has blazed leads up steep cliffs, through beautiful meadows of flowers, and peaks at a beautiful mountain top point so high in the beautiful blue sky, it nearly reaches heaven where a kind, wise, all-knowing Father will see his good works, hard work, and desire to please and find the perfect place in His vineyard for him to serve!
The Trail Blazer often stands alone. J is an Eagle who soars high! It's lonely at the top. I hope he will always remember that when he thinks he is walking alone, he is not really alone at all. When he has been brave enough to walk the path alone, following the Holy Spirit, he is not alone at all, rather he is walking with God! I am grateful that he gets to be a part of the trip over these next couple of days. He is two years ahead of the others in his class! He has a year before his mission. I wonder what adventures it holds!? During the past two weeks we have definitely built significant Cairns we will remember and J has certainly blazed a trail that is not a walk in the park! The trail he has blazed leads up steep cliffs, through beautiful meadows of flowers, and peaks at a beautiful mountain top point so high in the beautiful blue sky, it nearly reaches heaven where a kind, wise, all-knowing Father will see his good works, hard work, and desire to please and find the perfect place in His vineyard for him to serve!