The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Shines Brightly
October 9th, 2024 – TCS # 874
Happy (New) Year of Writing, My Readers! Interesting Greeting, You might say!
Well, as of Last Week, I have entered into
My 18th Year of Writing!
This (New) Year of Writing is My 18th Year, My Newsletter is Officially The Age of An Adult in The US! Isn’t that Crazy?!
So, To Begin My 18th Year of Writing, First Off I would like to Humbly Thank You, My Readers for Always being There to Read My Newsletters. Whether You just Found out that Your Child has PTLS, in which Welcome to The PTLS Family! Please Refer to The “PTLS FAQ” Newsletter before Continuing On.
On to This Week’s Newsletter! Okay, so This Newsletter is going to be a Rather Deep One!
Well, I feel like a Parent about to Send My Newsletter into Adulthood Here! Aw, The Christianville Spirit, I can’t believe that We have made it This Far, Where You have become Officially an Adult! 18 Years! That’s Hard to Believe! Only a Short Time from 20 Years in 2026. But, Let’s not get Ahead of Ourselves like Us PTLSers often Do!
So, How do We, The People at The Christianville Spirit celebrate It’s 18th Year!
How about a New and Deep Newsletter!
So, Here We go! This Newsletter Idea came to Me from My Amazing Aunt Kathy.
As You become an Adult, You get access to The World, Quite Literally and Figuratively! And, You Find and Find Out things that are Good, Bad, and Ugly, depending on The Course Path of Your Life. It is The Beauty of Being an Adult, that You know and will know Things.
One of Those Things, of Many is really that, When It comes to Shooting for Your Dreams or Believing that You can do Something, even though People say that You can’t, They are basically Underestimating What a Person can and can’t do.
One Time after My Mom released what I referred to as
“Big Faith Box”, It made me wonder What is The Biggest Risk in Your Life that You have Taken was. I told My Mom that likely The Biggest Risk of My Life, I had taken was Probably going on a Cruise with My Mom or My Brother (or My Dad) and to Go with PTLS Family Members that I have only spend a Few Hours with in a Given Time, but Not Days.
My Mom always says that The
PTLS Outreach Foundation is all about The Motto of “Unlocking Potential”. I could tell you of Many Episodes where I or Even Someone that I know, “Unlocked My Potential”. I can think Two that I can think of.
One Day when My Brother and I were in High School, My Brother was driving Me Home as He normally did. When We got to The Street before Turning down Our Street, My Brother stopped The Car and Put on The Emergency Brake, and Out of No Where, “Okay, Your Driving!” I freaked out a bit, like “I’m Driving?!” By The Way, at This Point in My Life, I had Driven Go-Carts and Golf Carts, that’s about it.
Never have I ever Driven a Car! Luckily, My Brother had The Car in Park and Emergency Brake, because The First Thing I did was Press on The Gas! Anyway, He had Me Drive a bit down The Streets and Near a Park near Our House, Baring in Mind that We live a Suburb of Dallas! And, Of Course, He had My Mom come out as I drove Down The Street and Parked The Car in Our Driveway. Luckily, It was an Older Car that I was Driving but, Still. Why My Brother did that is Beyond Me but, He figured that since My Mom (for My Safety) said that I couldn’t Drive and My Brother, “Yeah Right! I’m going to Try!”
And, Second Example of course, was The Cruise that I went on with The PTLS Family Members! The Biggest Example was when I wanted to go on The Zipline! I literally, centered the Entire Trip on Going on The Zipline. The Day of, Naturally I freaked out a little bit and I was like “If We don’t go on The Zipline, It’s Okay!” and, “M”, The PTLS Father Figure said that “If We do The Zipline, It’s Okay! If Not, That’s Okay too”
Now Yes, The Zip line was a Challenge, would be an Understatement. However, “M” gave me The Option to do it or not, and He gave me The Support I needed to do it. At The Beginning, due to Liability Reasons, I had Sign My Life away (without My Guardian, Mom to look over It) which gave me Anxiety. Once I got going, My Anxiety was Okay, that until I started spinning and I was sure if I was supposed to or Not. and My Hands went Everywhere to reach for The Brake which I had to use My “Strong Hand” which was not that Strong.
I am Very Grateful to “M” for Encouraging Me to do that, because He saw My Potential!
The Point of This, is that Us PTLSers are Very Smart in Many Different Ways and People say that We can’t do Something, but Us PTLSers Excel in Other Ways, like Me with Geography! I am an Expert about Geography and Sometimes, I even Surprise Myself with The Things that I know! But, Us PTLSers should be seen for What We can do and The Things that We excel at. Not The Things that We Can’t do! All in all, Even though We may have some Delays in Development and Abilities, Pay Attention to all that We can do and help us get Strong in Those Skills!
Thanks For The Christianville Spirit. Don’t Underestimate Us! We have High Potential!
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