School's started and my son's heart is good

After much apprehension, my son's made it through two good first days of fifth grade.

Why?

He has "fans". No kidding. A third or fourth grader even came up to and asked him "aren't you (for his privacy sake, I'll leave out his name)?". "yea, I am". "I loved you in last year's fourth grade play. You were so funny".

He has a love of drama, and loves to perform. His elementary school skews toward arts and drama (not really a magnet at this level though) and the arts and drama teachers there and those who help love his boldness on stage (no stage fright from this kid), his ability to project his voice, his ability to lend humor to his roles, et al.

Is a career in theater, or acting, realistic for him? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe writing will where he ends up. Maybe not. But we all need to just pursue where our hearts lead. If God put certain desires in our heart, we need to trust him to use that as guidance. Certainly some desires become corrupted, become twisted, but the pure desires in us, we need to pursue.

We adults need to recall what that was that stirred us when we were young ... maybe that's the path back to our hearts.