The Tenderizer of Time

Time is like a tenderizer, 

that makes the changes 

that will be served us 

easier to swallow.

One by One, my children are stepping out, learning to walk with God on their own.

Releasing them away from me, has come with mixed feelings.

I feel tenderized, and find myself REMEMBERING the past.

Remembering my own beginnings.
Mistakes that had Meaning,
and LOVE that would not give up.
HOPE that learned to always see the good.

Understanding that it is not

How you are served,

 but that you never
give up, on giving.

So you learn to GO low, 

and you will see 

the Beauty of God

 from the ground UP, 

that you never 

would from on high.

This is the place,
where your heart becomes
settled and confident,
in the ONE 
who made you,
and WHO will
finish you, and them.

Watching them learn, 

is like living it again, 

while I'm letting go.

You do not flinch when the dirt starts to fly, because you know it will settled, and that's what water is for...Cleansing comes then.

When we leave these seasons, to enter the next there is always something richer on the other side. The lessons that have gone deep into our lives, will be used to prepare us for what is to come.

In some ways it is not that we are totally leaving them, but taking the lessons that we have learned from them. I must be careful not to cling to closings when they come. They are His doings, leading us on.

"We live but once.  The years of childhood, when once past, are past forever...it has gone beyond our reach.  What we have made it, it shall remain.  There is no power in Heaven or on earth that can change it.  The record of our past stands forth in bold and ineffaceable characters, open to the all-seeing eye of God.  There is stands and one day we shall give an account of it.  The present moment alone is ours...Today is a day which we never had before, which we shall never have again.  It rose from the great ocean of eternity, and again sinks into its unfathomable depths.  ~Thomas De Witt Talmage

"One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped upon it.  Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change.  What you done lasts - last in you.  Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ,that, and only that, you are.  ~Frederick W. Robertson