In The Way That She Should Go

 My family and I had the great pleasure of watching the last of our bunch achieve one of her collegiate aspirations.

Now this one, the final child and second daughter, has always been adventurous, always sought after her own ideals, and always brought us so many smiles.

Such was the case when she spent years doing her observations, her research, and concluding on what was most in alignment with her life goals, aspirations, and intentions.

Joining many other young people on her collegiate campus, she joined that elite circle of college educated, community driven, and service minded organizations that have collectively impacted the African American community. 

My baby girl is now a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  

You would have to really know her to know how impactful this is.

She is already an Exponential Scholar and the Vice President, she is already a member of the National Council of Negro Women, Collegiate Section, she is already a leader in the voting efforts, environmental efforts, and social justice efforts on her campus. Her world travels, stellar GPA, and orchestra experience set her apart long before she "strolled down Route 66 into Delta Sigma Theta Land."

Her judicial and legal experience since Freshman year and her work with amazing women in the legal field will only become more focused and intentional.

She chose well.

We've told the story often about our youngest daughter and are often asked about the origins of her name.

During a time of seemingly losing it all, my husband was in his prayer time and we hadn't chosen her first name. We had ideas of her middle name, honoring family heritage, but the first name eluded us. We didn't know who she was yet or who she would be.

Then, my husband came into our bedroom, I was taking one of those pregnant naps and cuddling with our first daughter. 

"Keziah, her first name will be Keziah," and he showed me the passage in Job 42. "Then the LORD blessed Job's latter days more than his former ones...He also had sevens sons and three daughters...He named...a second Keziah. No women in all the land were as beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave an inheritance to them along with their brothers. After this, Job lived 140 years and saw four generations of his children. Then Job died, old and satisfied."

Our final child has been joy, adventure, and discovery from the time she was learning to crawl and figured out. how to open the front door to go outside with the rest of the family to the time she shocked us all and chose her university a thousand miles away. She understood the world to belong to her and to reach her hand up and grab all that was hers.

In her, as in older siblings who traveled from far away to celebrate her moment, we are happy that we truly guided them to find their own path.

We leaned into the responsibility to train our children in the way they should go. Each one has a unique gifting and calling on their life, different interests, different personalities, and different temperaments. Our job as parents was to study them, understand them, and nurture them to find their path.

Our family is one of service. She grew up doing that as second nature. Her mother is heavily involved in social justice and she grew up with that as second nature. 

In her, we are delighted and overjoyed. Truly all my children have been taught of the L
ORD. 

I may not know that the tomorrows will bring, but I am certain this  future attorney and policy advocate with be at the forefront of making change for the generations to come.

© 2025. A Finer Mama rejoicing over her Diva Daughter.