Fervent Prayers

I am amazed by my own kids sometimes. The way they come to decisions, process things, and come to very mature decisions without us. Garret is the most emotional of our kids. He gets mad, sad and then happy in a two-minute time frame pretty often. I will confess there are times when he says something that I brush it off knowing that in a few minutes he will feel completely OK about whatever he is worrying about. He is a little like his father in that. It's very endearing and reminds me of exactly how he has always been even as a toddler.
All on his own he has made some very life-changing decisions that will benefit where he wants to go with his criminal justice degree and how he wants God to direct his life. When the time is right he will make it widely known, but we are very, very proud of him. In the routine of life I am ashamed to say that I don't always feel like God is listening or caring about my little world, and then KABOOM! He reminds me that He is in control and works in ways I could never even imagine and that the faithful prayers of grandparents and those that love our kids really are important.
He will always be my cute redhead but he is proving that he is a man that wants to follow the path God has set before him.