‘DIRECT YOUR CHILDREN ONTO THE RIGHT PATH.’ PROVERBS 22:6 NLT

When Harry and Ada Mae Day brought the first child Sandra home from the hospital, It was to a tiny ranch house without running water, electricity or a school within driving distance. But they refuse to let their surroundings limit them. His father’s death had kept Harry form attending Stanford University, but he never lost hope that his daughter and later sent her to the best boarding schools. One summer the entire family climbed to the dome of every state capitol west of the Mississippi! Sandra did attend Stanford, then law school and eventually became the first women Supreme Court justice in America. The day she was sworn in she donned her robes and took her place among the other justices. Then locked eyes with her family, and the tears began.

Solomon said, ‘Direct you children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it. ‘What made Sandra Day O’Connor successful? Intelligence and ambition undoubtedly played a part. But much of the credit goes to a determined little woman sitting in a four-room adobe house reading to her kids hour after hour, and to parents who climbed the stairways of capitol domes alongside them. Chuck Swindoll says, ‘As significant as political, military, educational or religious figures may be, none compare to the impact made by mothers. Their words are never fully forgotten, their touch leaves and indelible impression…the memory of their presence lasts a lifetime. I ask you, who else has that kind of influence?’

Evangelist Philip Jegede’s Reading Courtesy of DWFT: Jer 49-50, Luke 7:1-20, Ps 118:1-9, Pr 15:27-30