Courageous Joy

Bragging on Young Men

Jared (14) fulfilled his last requirement on Thursday night at CAP. They have to wait 60 days from his last promotion to submit a new promotion. At the end of this month they'll submit his package for promotion to Staff Sgt. It was his goal to make this rank in his first year of membership. He did it.

Josiah (19) is nearing the end of his freshman year at the University. Last week he turned in a research paper for history. He was to write on a controversy in History and chose to write on FDR and the suspician that he knew about Pearl Harbor in advance of the attack. Josiah cited that FDR did not know; another classmate took the opposite view. Friday, Josiah had to give an oral presentation representing his stance in his paper. This was the last assignment in this class. He'll still have the final. ANYWAY - he says he wasn't nervous - but he left here saying "this is lame" (speaking of his slide show and presentation). We had planned for him to practice in front of us - but he had to work lots of extra hours last week and that didn't happen. In fact, he didn't even run through it before class. Josiah was homeschooled all his life. He doesn't liken nor has he practiced, speaking in front of groups. We told him we'd pray. We did. He texted us....he made ***100%***on his presentation! WooHOO! It's hard to believe that just a few short months ago I was stalking him on his first day at college.....He's done well.