The letter had been written twelve years earlier on my thirteenth birthday at the suggestion of a wise and caring Young Women leader. “Write a letter to yourself stating your goals, your dreams, your wishes for you and your life. Seal it up, keep it safe, and open it in about a dozen years to see how you are doing.”
* Make the high school drill team – check. Only I started homeschooling so ended up not participating.
* Go to college – check. Hmm….interesting I didn’t put finish college.
* Have at least five kids by the time I’m 35 – all boys, all named after Louis L’Amour characters. Hahahahahaha! The Lord sure got me good on that one. (Daughter number five had been born the month before)
* Become a concert pianist – huh, got a long way to go on that one.
* Write a children’s book – when do I have the time?
The list went on for a few more lines. I laughed. I cried. I rejoiced. I yearned.
Many of my dreams and wishes had come true. Others had not. As I wondered why I came to the realization that, for the most part, those dreams that had come true were the ones I had made an effort in obtaining. Some will always remain wishes because it is more fun to dream and scheme about them than actually work for them. And others, yet to be fulfilled will come in their time.
“The Creator has not given you a longing to
do that which you have no ability to do.”
~Orison Swett Marden~
Boy did that post turn out differently than I expected. Oh, well. To participate in Wordfull Wednesday, write a post on today’s topic “Wishes” come back here and sign Mr. Linky making sure to leave the url to your post not your blog’s main page.
I liked reading those and learning more about the 13 year old you.
Thanks for the idea. I just added my post!
I loved reading this post! When I read something I wrote in my teens, it makes me feel like I was a teenager just a few years ago!
I don’t know if that’s good or bad.
I’m sure your children will love reading what their mom wrote at their age too. I wonder if you’ll end up having similar wishes?
Thanks for giving me the chance to ponder some of mine.
This was a fun one. Thanks for giving me a laugh!
P.S. I think you are the only woman that I know able to check anything of “that letter”. (I think we all wrote one sometime in Personal Progress!) You must be truly goal oriented.
How fun…it’s always good to look back and realize wishes do come true!
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I hope I did that correctly. That was way fun, thanks!
I love your picture. Nice post. I made the linky thing go to my main page…Whoops. I don’t know how to change it, but I’ll make sure next time. If you feel like it maybe you could do a tutorial on how to make page link buttons like the ones on top of your blog. It may be beyond me, but I’m trying to learn. Thanks!
I did a letter like that too! I wonder where it is?
i did that in YW also when I was 13 – I need to go find it and have a good laugh
How funny that you wanted all boys and have 5 girls. I only wanted girls and have 2 boys and 2 girls. I’m ever so grateful (as I’m sure you are) that Heavenly Father had a different plan for me!
I’d like to have my girls do this – it’s a bit like a time capsule.
Louis L’amour characters? Hee hee.
You seem to have covered the most important ones. 🙂
so this is my first go at participating with your wordfull wednesday– I’m sorry there are two from Deb, but only one is right (the second) and I have a private blog, so I’m not sure if it will link– I’m still so new at this– but I LOVE your blog 🙂 Thanks for letting me peek 🙂 deb
Wordful Wednesday is such a great idea. I never read anyone’s post until after I have mine complete. It is so fun to see what everyone comes up with.
When I was a little girl I loved to close my eyes and bang the piano pretending I was a concert pianist.
I love this idea of letters to our future selves and might use it as a FHE lesson.
Fun to see a little window into your personality years ago!
Deb,
Because your blog is private we can’t see your post. If you’d like I can post it here on my blog. I’ve done that a few times before with other private bloggers. Let me know if you’d like to do that. We’d love to read what you wrote!
Wow, I didn’t even realize I had participated this week 🙂 !!
What a fabulous idea your YW leader had. I should write a letter to myself for 12 years from now. That would be interesting.