Growing up
Happens before our eyes,
One day in the cradle
The next, junior high.
When it happens to your own
It is strange indeed,
How could this boy who
I nursed, cuddled and reared
Grow into a man with a beard?!
Will he remember his appointments without my reminders?
Will he feel happy and loved without my every day hugs?
How hard it is to let go and let God take control
(as if He didn’t have it before?!)
My son’s a young man, yet still my child to me,
Lord, help me to know how to relate and to see
What will serve and what won’t; when to call, when refrain
I don’t want to let go, but I'm comforted to know
YOU will never let him go, not a moment, oh no,
You will hold him and keep him and love him each day
You’ll correct and protect and reveal your love and truth all the way.
How grateful I am to know this is true
That my young man is Your man and Your plan is good and perfect too.
Thank you for letting me mother him for so long,
Teach me to mother in new ways while that he’s gone.
Keep him safe, grant success and bless his college years
With growing wisdom, godly friends and a faith that endures.
5 comments:
Awww...Peg! You have such a talent! I see where Dan gets it from! Miss and love you.
I almost cried reading this. I'm on the other end but know that it's going to fly by too fast; it already is! My 'babies' are going to be big brothers any day!!
Peg, this is a wonderful poem. It really echoes what must be on every moms heart...I know its on mine! Miss you SO much!
Sherrie
I am right there with you, Peg. Does that young man like to remind you how much of a man he is now, not a little kid, if you know what I mean? AAAAGH! But yes, I'm learning to mother in a different way. I catch myself (rather, HE catches me) talking to him like he's a kid, though. His 19th birthday is in March. I've been a mom almost as many years as I wasn't! How about you?
wow, I hadn't calculated the years..I had Daniel three days before my 23rd birthday, and I'll be 42 this year, so, yep, a mom almost as long a as not! And still so much to learn and so far to grow in this high calling! :)
And, yes, Daniel finds many ways, often unspoken, of letting me know he's not my little boy anymore!
(Like leaving his laundry at college from time to time!)
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