The month of May is a huge wrap up
month for our family. It is the end of the school year – which means the
conclusion of school, Awana, women’s Bible study, choir, piano lessons and
the start of summer. This year I feel like we have reached several milestones -
all of which signals some pretty major changes coming up!
Our youngest child, Kimberly, passed her
drivers’ test (on the
very first try and with flying colors!!) and is enjoying driving herself to
work and to the store if I need something. When she comes home tomorrow after
school, she will be a senior. Wow.
Our third child, Carissa, is in the
middle of looking at some school options and is trying to discern the best path
to pursue. She can hardly wait to finish and get into her own classroom to
teach.
Our second child, Ashleigh, will be
wrapping up her internship in July and is busy looking for jobs in her field of
work. Graduate school is another thing she is considering.
Our oldest child, Andrew, is
wrapping up his employment and will be sorting what he wants to box to move, to
put into storage, or to pitch as he gets ready to move to Louisville to attend
seminary.
If I’m not careful, it can put me in a
very pensive mood and long for the good ole’ days when the kids were out in the yard
playing or enjoyed the newest Disney movie. But I really wouldn’t want to be
back there, either. They were wonderful times and I treasure each of those
memories. But I am really glad to be where we are right now.
It is both humbling and exciting to
watch each of our grown up kids stretch their wings as they move into life. I
love to hear them talk about what God is teaching them and how they own their
faith – not just that
they are going through life on what we have taught them but that they have come
to beliefs through careful study on their own.
It is gratifying to hear them talk
about how their trust is being stretched as they wrap up one season of life and
get ready for the next one with all the changes it will bring.
And yes, it is nice to know we are
still needed every so often for a piece of advice or a favorite home-cooked
meal or the use of our van to help move their belongings.
Yes these milestones are pretty big
ones, but it is, after all, how God designed life to flow. I think what makes
me smile the most, though, is this statement from 3 John – verse 4: “I have no greater
joy than to hear that my children are walking in truth.”
