Bangor Chronicles: Zachary

December 30, 2017        Bangor meets Zachary

One of the biggest blessings my family and I ever received entered our world and changed it forever on April 6, 2017. This is the day our Zachary King was born. He is an awesome little boy and I love him so much! He is meeting every developmentally milestone and in the 97% percentile for height and weight! When I think about my nephew there are several things I want him know. Several things I want him to understand. The biggest thing I want for him is to find a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and the faith of our family. I want him to learn how to make his faith his own so he doesn't see Christianity as something our family just does. I want to help him learn from my mistakes spiritually and emotionally so he doesn't have the same struggles I have. I want him to a ripple in the river of his peers that creates change. I want him to learn how to be a friend to everyone and how it is cool to reach out to the kid in the lunchroom sitting by themselves. I want him to have a heart of adventure! I want him to see, experience, and appreciate the beauty of our country. I want him to learn the beauty of hiking and simply being. I want him to develop a love of books. I want him to see how much reading can enrich his life. I want him to learn that if he isn't exactly good in one subject at school it doesn't take away from him and how special and unique he is. If he struggles, I will encourage him to not give up- that hard work pays off! I want him to be secure in himself so if a peer puts him down he is still standing simply because he knows who he is. I want him to learn each of us have things about us that make us different but at the end of the same we are all the same. I want him to know my whole story one day and have it resonate with him and stay with him. I want my story to show him diagnoses and what people say about us is not the end all. When we choose to take away those labels and lowered expectations we find freedom. When we choose to rise above our challenges than no one and nothing can hold us down. We just have to chose not to let those labels define us. I want Zachary to be a game-changer! I want him to choose happiness and choose life. I want him to choose freedom over chains. These are just of few of the things I want him to learn. I want Zachary to know that most of all I will never stop loving him even when he trips up on his journey.