For the First Time in Years

August 10

We have no grandbabies brewing (that we know of) nor weddings in the works at the present time.

For the first time in fourteen years we are not loading up a vehicle (van, Suburban or U-Haul) bound for a new dorm room or apartment. The driveway remains free from the personal yard swaps where our kids traded everything from pots and pans to cars, before heading off to college or a new career. (We do have one heading to Paris for a year to continue work on her doctorate, but we won't be assisting with the move.)

The demands of parenting are quite different (lots of listening and less lecturing) and the transformation into grandparenting is most welcome.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Let's stop and pray for students who are preparing to leave home. Pray for their safety, for their purity and for their hearts to hunger for God more than anything or anyone else. Ask God to put a student on your heart (possibly in your neighborhood, your church or your family tree) who is away or heading away from home and could use encouragement through a simple card. Maybe you live in a town, which is about to start bustling with new college students, and your house could be a home away from home "haven" for one of them.

Life is a great adventure. Always changing and always presenting us with new challenges and new ways to make moments count for our King.