Legacy

My son Solomon has recently taken over some of the photography for The Company.  As much as I love taking pictures, it’s not easy for me to be at the schoolhouse frequently enough to get photos for our social media and marketing.  

When I sat down to finally edit the pictures he had taken I was beyond impressed.  I didn’t really give him much counsel on photo composition, but what he shot was creative, good, and mostly in focus.  Not an easy feat for an adult, let alone a 10 year old.  

I was so impressed that I shared the photos to my social media pages with the caption, “Legacy is raising up your own competition”.

As parents we would never see the amazing things our kids are doing and try to stifle them.  In fact, parents bend over backwards (sometimes to their own detriment) to provide their kids with all the opportunities to help them grow in their passions.  

I don’t know if photography is something that Sol will want to continue into adulthood, but for now I’m grateful that he is light-years ahead of where I was at 10 years old (literally without a camera haha).

In the Kingdom we want our kids to far exceed the places we’ve been able to go.  Parents forge and trample down a path, cutting down the weeds and making a way so that their kids can do more at an earlier age than they did.

That’s not to say that our kids don’t have to learn the lessons on their own sometimes, but it does mean that we can advise and show them a way that is full of less tangles and tears that our own was.  They still get a choice, and I know they won’t always listen, but hopefully some things stick and they get to build upon the firm foundation that Brad and I have laid.  

I don’t get offended when my kids do things better than me.  I want them to far exceed my capabilities and have a better seat at the Lord’s table than I do.  Then I want them to do the same with their children so that their children’s children will see and experience things that I can only imagine.  

Legacy is Kingdom work.  More important than any accolades or accomplishments I can gain here on earth is hoping that my children have a relationship with Jesus.  

The other day Brad said that being vulnerable is more about sharing your hope than sharing your challenges.  So often we think someone is vulnerable when they share all the hard things, but really it’s more exposing to share what we hope for. 

But we can be certain, as Paul says in the book of Romans, that “hope does not put us to shame”.

the Lord with their whole hearts and will in turn lead their families to do the same.

They’re gonna do better than me, and for that I’m so grateful.