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By: Charles W. Boatright
Blacksmith uses heat to shape Iron with Iron: Most satisfaction anyone can achieve in life is to influence and shape others people’s lives. We all can be blacksmiths to others to show how hard work, purpose, perseverance provides success
I have a slight different take on Proverbs 27:17 where it states: As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. I would substitute the word shapes for the word sharpens. Before there were welders, which is an excellent trade to learn and develop a career, there were blacksmiths that were at the very heart of any community.
I had a great-great uncle that was a blacksmith in the community of Huntsville, Arkansas, in the heart of the Ozarks that helped improve people’s lives. Just like my uncle took raw iron and placed it into the furnace to heat it to a malleable temperature, then he used tools to shape or reshape the iron into a desirable and usable component. Then he would quench the iron in a bath of water or oil to harden and strengthen the iron.
Just like my uncle heated up the iron to a malleable state then he used his hammer and anvil to shape the iron into a desirable form. So we can be blacksmiths to help shape, or in some cases, reshape other people’s lives.
Instead of a furnace, hammer, and anvil, we can use our experiences, knowledge, perseverance to help influence and shape other people’s mind, body, and soul to achieve their success in life. In a homeschool sitting along with a challenging curriculum, sports and fitness are used to strengthen, reshape, and harden our mind, body, and soul to be able to persevere through life’s challenges.
Being and Influence to Others
There is nothing more rewarding than to be able to help shape or reshape other people’s lives to help them reach their fullest potential. But just like my uncle, who was a blacksmith, he put in hard work over long hours to hammer out and shape iron into a desirable component that was needed.
We all can become blacksmiths in life to shape and in some cases reshape the lives of others to harden and strengthen their skills, abilities, and potential to reach success that they couldn’t even imagine. In a homeschool setting, along with the student’s curriculum, sports and fitness are great components to strengthen not just our children’s lives but our own lives where we can develop that blacksmith coach mentality.
Sports, health, and fitness can be the furnace, hammer, and avail of our lives to allow us to defy the ravages of life and ravages of aging to where we can maintain an active lifestyle where we can turn our mind, body, and soul into the iron that has been forged to withstand the challenges of life even at my age of 68.
For those that homeschool, I have written a book, EXCALIBUR Athlete’s Forged Performance to help parents be able to incorporate faith-based sports, health, and fitness into their children’s curriculum to achieve their full potential in mind, body, and soul:
My other books that are presently on Kindle in E-Book and Paperback:
