This past week I has the joy of helping my 18 year old daughter get ready and go off to College. It was so exciting to see her get all her stuff for her room ready to move half way across the country to start her new life as an adult. I am so very proud of her!
But as the day got closer to put her on the plane in San Antonio, I felt a ache deep in my chest that I could not ignore. No it wasn't indigestion, or sudden heart problems, it was the pain of Change.
I know one of our presidential canidates has made Change the center of his campaign, but I am no so sure I like it? Sometime the day before my dear daughter left on her adventure of new beginnings, I realized my cutie little girl was no longer just mine, and she wasn't little any more. In fact time has marched on, even if I don't like it! And now I have to let her go! She will always be her mother and I's little girl, but not in the way things have been for the first 18 years of her life.
You see there is joy mixed with pain in the midst of change. Even good changes! So in the end I shed quite a few tears and then I laughed and celebrated the lovely young woman I watched climb on that big sliver jet at the airport. I prayed and blessed her and her new life and thanked God for allowing me the great privilege of being her father. I praised God for the miracle that she has become as she follows His will for her life and her future continues to unfold.
Life's changes aren't easy! But God walks with us every step of the way!
In His Grace!
Rev. Richard
