I keep finding myself looking back. My children are getting older, no one I care for is getting younger. I'm tired tonight. So maybe I'm not thinking straight.
But I remember the pillar of salt. Lot's wife looked back at her old life, with longing. Ahead of her was freedom. Instead she looked back.
I don't want to miss where I'm going because I'm too busy looking back.
But it's familiar. Ahead is uncertainty and risk. Like the Israelites who longed for Egypt and CAPTIVITY because it was a known-
instead of the unknown and relying on God.
I know that there are deeper issues in both of these stories,
but I'm not going into it now.
You get it.
5 comments:
What sweet faces!!
I remember all those little faces. It always amazes me, when I look at your oldest, just how ADULT-like he looks and how quickly that seems to happen.
Here's to enjoying our kiddos every day. to the fullest. Even when we want to wring their necks. *grin/wink*
And for those of you reading my above comment who think "Man, someone needs to call Social Services on that woman"... relax. it's just an expression. A rather true one. But an expression nonetheless. ;)
Wow - so true and so powerful! We need to look ahead with eager anticipation...but yet also LOVE and CHERISH the minutes that we're in. They do go by so fast.
I know I'm very hormonal right now but this post made me cry. :(
It just seems like a few weeks ago.....sigh.
Love & miss yall terribly.
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