What are You Building?

I recently heard a cool story and thought you might enjoy it as well.

Two men are sitting in the middle of an open, dry desolate terrain with a small chisel and rocks.  A third man walks up and asks the first one what he is doing.  He says, "I am building a stone?"

Then the third man walks to the second man and says, "What are you doing?"  This man, using the same equipment and the same types of rocks as the first man, stops, looks up for a second, points to a specific spot in front of him and says, "I am building a cathedral."

Wow!  That is pretty powerful stuff.  As a parent, teacher, administrator or counselor, what is it that you are building?  Are you building a stone or are you building a cathedral?  Who saw you as a cathedral when you were young?  I am sure you can point to someone.  So, now return the favor!

Finally Friday

Friday is finally here and the weather threatens to be pretty for the weekend.  We are working furiously to get all of our scholarship applications in to the District office today for review and they all look pretty good.  Wish us luck!!  

Amazing Young People

Right now we are working with eleven young people that are applying for the Texas 4-H Foundation Opportunity Scholarship and all eleven are just amazing young people.  They all have such unique stories to tell, outstanding goals for the future and exceptional work ethics in order to accomplish this tremendous task (a fourteen page application) by this Friday.  My hat goes off to each and everyone of them!!