Well. . .it is official. My baby just graduated from high school! My BABY will be 18 in less than a month. I have been struck lately on how this all seemed to sneak up on us. For such a long time it seemed like we would always be in the season of life in which they depended on us for so much. That I would be transporting children forever. . .and then BOOM. . .she got her license in January. . .a car in April. . .and 15 years of driving them to and from school EVERYDAY is done. And now she drives herself to school, dance rehearsal. . .everywhere. . .and I am forced to enter the age of the "wondering mother". Wondering if she will make the right turns, if she will get in an accident, when she is on the road and when she gets there. . .and who she is encountering along the way. Man. . .for all those years I wanted to get to the next stage. . .I don't like this one. . .'cause SO much of it is out of my hands. For SO long I was in control of the situations. . .not in a controlling way. . .but just that I KNEW what was going on. . .now I sit home and have to trust that she will make wise choices in whatever situation she finds herself in. That all those life-lessons. . .all that we have built into her life about God and faith will have taken hold and help to guide her down wise paths. I do not know how people who don't believe that there is a God who watches over us and walks with us (and our children) live with any measure of sanity???
