Future Begins Now

While praying for children, an essential aspect adults do not like to miss is that of career and ambitions. They most of the time pray for them to be medical doctors, professors, lawyers, engineers, presidents and so on. You would rarely hear them pray for a child to become a teacher but that’s not what this article is about. You are likely to have heard an adult pray for a girl to become a first lady. That prayer is in itself not a bad one but when the ambition of a girl is to become a first lady, there’s a fundamental error somewhere. I recently overheard a girl saying she would become a first lady and I was prompted to write this. If it was someone I did not know at all, maybe I could have passed it off as a joke but with the girl in question, I saw it as a serious matter. Being a first lady in this context is a position occupied by the wife of a head of state or chief executive. That sounds more like a marriage/relationship goal than a future ambition. To have such a dream ...