A child in our community is having risky surgery this morning...
My dear friend and her husband are going away together for the first time since becoming parents - 4 1/2 years ago - they are on the plane this morning...
My 4-year-old - who did not want to go to school today, did not want to see his friends - went to school anyway because his mommy needed to go to work (and frankly, he did need to go to school) this morning...
Each and every morning, each and every moment, in some ways we recognize and some ways we don't, there is a lot of letting go that happens between children and parents. And that is largely the dance of the parent/child relationship...holding on and letting go...going apart and coming together...paying enough attention to each other to follows the cues, to know who should be leading in that moment, to move in rhythm. And, the challenge and opportunity is knowing when to do each.
Again I think of God...our ultimate parent...the one who both holds us close and sets us free...the one who knows the faithfulness of both...the one who helps us as we learn.
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