Winter Vinecki showing strength and love

Winter Vinecki 

Winter Vinecki here is running a marathon in  Antarctica to raise money for her father who is fighting prostate cancer. It goes without saying to do this takes training, love, and strength. Whatever   I thought about girls back in the day, I have learned while they are a mystery to me, it is not so much are we equal but am I up to their level.
Winter's dad has encouraged his daughter to love running and probably a lot of other interests. This is something dads can do better than anybody, provide the love, boundaries of safety and encouragement for kids to grow and develop.
I believe into the potential God created them to go. No two snow flakes are alike and no two kids are alike. They each have their own design.

NKJV 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it."

NRSV© 22:6 "Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray."

You can two ways to look at this verse, both are good, most translations I looked at suggest the NKJV and clearly support my idea that God has a path for each of us to follow, a path that may have similarities because God's design we share many beneficial things. But our experiences, gifts, talents...work out uniquely in each one of us. The right way in NRSV is God's way that we learn each day and takes in our differences, uniqueness-es and experiences. His way has a lot of shared values but He is the one who made us and knows how it all works out in our lives. As parents we teach our children what God has taught us but we do so with the idea that they will grow up and discover for themselves God's ways and will. Their abilities, personality, achievements and failures will all make up who God created them to be. 

Usually we don't think in terms of failures with kids, but haven't we found we have learned a lot for our mistakes, sins, failures and trials. We have a make believe idea that life happens without trails, work, effort, errors, sins, struggles. Here is where we grow strong, talented, gifted and we look at that child, young man and woman, with wonder. "God leads his dear children along"...

Winter's story of training and not using her talent to help her dad with cancer stands out because of the struggle of it. Keep walking