How I can relate to this passage. I am getting on in my life - maybe not to the tune of 120 years old, but still coming to the home strech of my working career. I've been doing the same thing since 1979 and working at the same place since 1973. I have been blessed since neither the boys or I have any debt from their schools and I still have my retreat place called Celebration.
There are so many things that I want to do and be yet on the same token I want to be there for my sons - emotionally, physically and financially. They and Irene are my world. I would die for each of them - no questions asked. However, this passage talks about turning over the baton to those who will succeed me. I love each of them - David and Daniel passionately. I wish I were a better communicator of that and that they would know. How to go about that is the tricky part.
Being 3 states away for 5of 7 days is a bummer. I wish I could greet them when I got home, talk and catch up with them every day and encourage and most of all LISTEN to them and their hearts. This distance has taken a toll on my family and me more than I would have expected. We are all needy people. v. 8 is the motivation and the reason, I do what I do.
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