PASSAGES - What comprises so much of our lives.

The older I get the more clear it becomes to me. 

 

Life is a series of passages – transitions from one era to the next. 

 

Some are anticipated with excitement and joy.  Others are a dark shadow on the horizon that we face with dread.  Most are something of a mix between the two.

 

Today I saw a picture of a friend embracing her son in front of the car that would take him away to college and away from the life they’ve shared together so joyfully for 18 years.  The very thing we raise our children to do – FLY.  And it’s so painful to Let. Them. Go.  But we know as moms that it’s not about me and my needs.  It’s about graciously navigating this new passage.

 

At our daughter’s wedding, I will always cherish watching my husband dance with his precious daughter, both of them sobbing with the understanding that it will never be like it was.  But this embarking upon the new life brought us our beloved son-in-law and three incredible grandchildren. 

 

Passages.

 

Birth.  Illness.  Graduations.  Marriage.  Parenting.  Departures.  Careers.  Aging.  Dying.

 

So Many Passages.

 

And God’s pathway through them all is not easy but is SO simple.  Fix Your Eyes on Jesus!

 

Because that one last passage; the one in which we are ushered into eternity, will bring to full fruition every dream, hope and joy we’ve longed for!

 

1 Peter 1:8-9

Though you have not seen HIM, you love HIM; and even though you do not see HIM now, you believe in HIM and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,  for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.