I recently asked my daughter what she wants to be when she grows up.
Her response was, “I want to be an astronaut and a builder and a farmer and a cowboy.”
She is so excited to become all of those things.
And I will be there cheering her on whether she’s in a spaceship or a tractor!
Kids are so good at seeing their future potential.
They know they don’t know everything yet, and that’s okay!
They will learn!
But as we get older, it gets a little more difficult for some reason.
We have our “fixed mindset” that we are the way we are.
“Oh, I’m just not good at studying the scriptures.”
“I’m not a natural teacher.”
“It’s really hard for me to want to serve others.”
We are locking down our potential when we say or think these things.
Absolutely every skill worth having can be obtained with hard work and practice.
“Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.” (Matthew 13:31-32)
This littlest, tiniest seed doesn’t look special.
But someone with foresight can see the endless POTENTIAL in that one seed.
They know that it can become something useful, purposeful, fruitful.
Something that is able to serve and produce.
In what areas of your life are you still staying small?
Maybe it’s figuring out how to access your priesthood power, how to gain an education, or how to be kinder in all your interactions.
With Jesus, we don’t have to stay small.
We can grow into the biggest mustard tree we can be!
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
