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10/5/2015

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We say good-bye to our children in so many ways. Sometimes it is with a sense that they are fulfilling their purpose as adults in a world that will be blessed by them. They go to college. They get married. They have their first child. They are deployed across an ocean. They take a job on another continent. They plunge into a program of personal growth and recovery. They get their first job after getting a degree in ministry. All those things are joyous and full of hope for tomorrows of purpose and blessing, but even then there is a small, soft note in a minor key that says,"Where did the days go? All the days that I wished were over so I could go to bed get a little sleep? All the days I looked forward to an end to ball practices and music practice, when now I would give a great deal to revisit one of those days.

And I'm so grateful for all the ways my children lead lives that bless others: their families, their co-workers, their neighbors, their employers, their churches, their communities. And I thank God with a full heart that my mistakes as a mother, the times I was distracted, overwhelmed, inattentive, and just plain wrong are covered by a God that loves my children (& grandchildren) more than I can ever love them.

And I am even more grateful that when I see my children and grandchildren struggling that I no longer believe I am in charge of fixing things for them. I am confident in their strength, wisdom, compassion, and persistence and I am even more confident in God's abundant Grace and desire for their highest good and ability to cover their oversights, errs and limitations with as much power and capacity and willingness as God has poured into my own life. I am confident that God asks us to endure nothing that is not necessary to get us where we need to be...relying on Him, growing according to His Grace, fulfilling our highest good, the greatest purposes for which we are created.

Abba, Father God, thank you for loving my children more than I can, knowing perfectly what they need at all times and in all places, and being wholly available to them in times of joy and times of challenge, always longing for their highest good and able to lead them to amazing grace, overwhelming joy and infinite compassion. AMEN
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