Weekend Read November 10 2012:
The following is taken out my journal.
Entry from February 6 2000 :........
On January
16, Robyn had a special birthday dinner in honour of my birthday. Everyone was there. It truly was a wonderful day! It is such an immense blessing to see our
children together and while I know they will never be best of friends, they do
pull together under tough circumstances as when Drew was in the fatal car accident.
They also practice tolerance
with each other when we are present.
They all
have their strengths........and weaknesses; we all do and I love each one of
them very much.
A Mother’s
heart is difficult to describe when it comes to her children. I realize their differences and their
shortcomings and because I have lived longer, experienced more and prayed much
for wisdom, or perhaps I am now an onlooker at their lives, I see them and
watch the growth taking place in their lives.
I can discern the successes and disappointments and my heart hurts for
the areas in their lives where there is a need for growth. I know they still have difficult lessons to
learn ahead of them.
No matter
how much we would like to shelter our children from the pain of life’s lessons,
we cannot. I understand we all have our
individual journeys to travel, over the bumps through the valleys and around
the corners of change in order to arrive at our destination.
Thank God there are plateaus and yes, even
mountains tops when we feel like we are on top of the world but these times do
not linger and then we are faced with another valley. The good thing about being in the valleys is;
that is where we learn to accept what we cannot change, where our very souls
are being refined and where we really get to know ourselves and each valley
brings us closer to the epoch of where we strive to be.....where there is
truth, love, joy and peace of mind. This
is when we are able to see and understand what really matters.
Are we there yet? I don’t think so but we keep pressing on,
forgetting what is behind and pushing on toward the goal.....the destiny of our
journey. And we hope our children find
peace and contentment that we, as ageing parents, know is attainable!
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