Trust In Your Seed

I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands

one nation

under God

indivisible

with liberty and justice for all.

I am full of greatness.

These are the words my class recites every morning. I introduced the additional last line a few weeks into the year, and my kids say it each time without fail. 

I wish I could sneak into their second grade classrooms on the first day of school next year to see if any of them automatically add that line out of sheer habit. 

I wish twenty years from now while saying the pledge at a special event, they find themselves reminiscing about first grade and Miss McMorrow's greatness mantra. 

I wish I could know how this deposit I've left in their lives will manifest itself well beyond first grade.

My cousin Laurie is good at reminding me to trust in my seed.