HERE’S AN IDEA FOR PARENTS OF GRADS. Write them a letter. Thank them for sharing so much of their life with you. Here’s a letter to prime the pump for you. Photo by THẢO TĂNG VĂN from Pixabay.
IF I SPEND TOO MANY MOMENTS remembering when my daughter and my son graduated from high school and left for college, I get a little wet on the face.
I’m going to give you a link to the letter I wrote to my daughter. Partly because I think it’s a cool idea to consider, if you’ve got a kid graduating. Actually, it’s a good idea any time.
Here’s the link:
A goodbye letter to my high school grad
Regarding our sons, I’ll not hit you with a second letter, the one to my boy, a man now.
But I’ll tell you this, I used to gripe about him leaving the console doors open under the TV. He needed them open to play his video games. But afterward, he’d walk away and leave them open. It irritated the dickens out of me.
I helped him pack a truck for college. I watched him drive away, with his video games.
That evening I went downstairs to watch TV. The console was empty, the doors closed.
I got up from my chair, opened the console doors, and sat back down and cried.
It’s okay. There’s “a time to cry” (Ecclesiastes 3:4).
But both of my kids—now grown and married parents—were here for a visit a few days ago. They brought my grandchildren.
What makes it okay to cry is that there’s also “A time to laugh” and “to dance” and “to love” (Ecclesiastes 3:4, 8).
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