Our lives change forever today. Diana and I are taking Grace, our oldest daughter to college. It will be to begin her sophomore year, but her first time to live on campus and essentially out of the house. In unfamiliar surroundings, eating God only knows what at the university cafeteria and being around so many strangers.
I am not ready.
She has most of her dorm stuff packed and is champing at the bit to get on down the road and on with the rest of her life. Al the things that would worry me are the very things she is excited about! Doesn’t she understand what torment she is about to put her mother and I through?
Therein lies the root of the problem. It is not her confidence, but mine that is struggling. It is not her faith, but mine. She is ready to climb and conquer mountains; I am telling her to watch out for the uneven sidewalk in front of our house.
I think deep within the heart of every parent is the same nagging feeling when their children leave home? Can’t I get some more time to teach them or train them to prepare them for the adult world and to make their own way?
It is like life is cycling through again. There is something familiar about this. First time to leave her with a babysitter…first day of public school…heading out the door for Senior Prom.
Though Grace is going just 40 miles west to Hammond, Louisiana it is a separation and a change of life.
She leaves as my little girl and will continue to develop into a confident, amazing young woman.
That is why we named her Grace…God told us she would be amazing.
Love you baby. I think I will go watch Steve Martin in “Father of the Bride”.
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