Lesson #2 Are you a Cadillac or a Cowboy?

  The other day I was fixing some lunch for my two boys and I was just about at my last nerve!! They were running around and acting like their little butts were on fire...Finally, I screamed "gentlemen, you both better sit down and I mean now." Both of the little ones got in their seat and I thought "Victory at last!!" My 3 year old looks me and plainly (and very seriously) states " We ain't gentlemen...I am a COWBOY and he is a BABY!" Then he claimly went to eatting his lunch! He literally thinks he is some type of western hero, like Wyatt Earp.  He tells everyone he's a cowboy! Most folks don't argue with him, but at our church's discipliship training class last Sunday I literally thought I would have to pull him off a 1st grader who didn't think he was a real cowboy!! Least to say he didn't learn much about Moses that night cause he was so determined to prove to everyone in the class that he was a real cowboy!!

  You know if you don't think you are something you won't ever be!!

  You have to focus on something and believe it to be true and then it can happen!

   Every year on the day of the county show my dad and I did the same thing. We went out to the barn and loaded feed, bottled water (another story), supplies, and clothing for the show. We when quietly loaded in our truck and headed out...When we pulled out on Highway 82 (about 3 miles away from our house) the nearly same conversion would always take place:

So, who do you think will win the show steer tonight?  My dad would answer and ask my opinion.  Usually, we shared the same opinion.  Then I would say.. So, who do you think will win the heifer show tonight? My dad would answer and ask my opinion.  And then without hesitation, I would say, "I am going to win showmanship tonight!" and that was the end of that.....
Usually by that time we would be at our local hardware store, Jernigan's, and we would run in for a coke and a honey bun!

My dad had won our county showmanship every year he was in high school and it was my goal to do the exact same thing...no pressure on my boys, of course.. I have one that will probably he most likely riding his calf and the other will be chasing the girls.....

I won showmanship because I believed that with God's Grace I could do it!

Now don't get me wrong...I would look great driving a brand, new sporty Cadillac. (For anyone who wants to send me one... I will gladly take any color, but black and silver would be my top 2 choices. hahaha) I can imagine myself flying down the interstate in that thing....so what is the difference.....

I put the work behind the thoughts of being a showman! I don't think I will afford a Caddy anytime soon because I am not putting any work efforts towards getting the car!!

You have to do some WORK!!! For those people who just think the show calves come into the world broke and beautiful GET REAL!!! You can think you are the best showman in the world, but if you don't work with your calf by time your county show rolls around you are just going to be a RAN OVER SHOWMAN! That would be about as dumb as sitting on the floor thinking I can fly! I can fly!! and just expecting it to happen!! Unless you are on your lab top buying a ticket on DELTA it ain't going to happen!!

So, the moral of the story, think positive and get off your tush!!