Be thankful, be grateful, be patient, be charitable, be kind, and don’t forget to smile, as it is infectious.
Starting from conception, birth, through the toddler years, learning to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. Like learning to accept when roller skating or ice skating, you’re going to fall often, learning you must get back up, dust yourself off, and try again, as it is all part of the process. Life grows in stages.
We all certainly remember going from a crib to a bed, our first tricycle, scooter, or Big Wheel, then graduating to our first bicycle, and getting our driver’s licenses and our first car. Each offering growth and the expansion of our world in just how far we could go.
After High School, some find work in the trades or Union jobs, while others go on to complete higher education and pursue careers in the corporate or private sector.
Some travel, get their first apartment, while others, like us, settle down, marry, and start a family, creating a greater need for living space and prompting the purchase of their first home.
Life with kids, you watch and live the process now from a parent’s point of view, and it reminds us that life is cyclical. Your time, like your parents’, is consumed with Pre-K, school, sports, doctor visits, recitals, and so much more. In these years, life speeds by from year to year, decade to decade, as you watch as kids go off to college, careers, marriage, and eventually children of their own.
In the quiet moments between babysitting, family dinners, vacations, and attending our grandchildren’s events, you come to realize that life is a journey of growth. From year to year and age to age, it’s meant to be lived fully, not merely endured. As long as you have breath and the clock ticks forward with the rising and setting of the sun, embrace each moment.
Point to Ponder: The statement below is my opinion and just a reflection on the current events response to hearing the news this morning.
As I awoke this morning and learned about our military actions beginning in Iran, I couldn’t help but reflect on the significance of this moment, especially with the planets aligning for all to see. Taking action against a despotic regime in a place of such profound biblical importance, which has deep roots in both the Old and New Testaments, is no small matter.
I am reminded that this particular alignment of the planets, as reported, will not occur again for another 40 years. While I tend to be more of an optimist than a doom-and-gloom proponent, I recognize that the number 40 holds significant meaning in biblical terms, especially during this time of Lent. Let us just prat the Iranian people embrace this moment in their history in forming a more peaceful nation.
So, let’s take a moment to pray for our President and for the military as they respond to the cries for help from the Iranian people, who have already lost over 35,000 citizens in their struggle for freedom. May God bless our President, our military, and the United States of America.
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