Mackenzie is an amazing daughter. She is the one I can count on to shop with me and get a drink at Starbucks. I taught her how to thrift store shop! She is so fun to talk to and laugh with. I love that she is a young adult and we can sometimes just hang out and be silly together.
I have heard older people say, "where does the time go?". I used to smile with my two little girls hanging from my arms, not believing that time would go very fast. Sometimes, I wished it would! When you are a mom with two little ones, as one of my friends is finding out...you don't have much time to think about time, or how fast or slow it is going. You don't even have much time to sleep, so that makes time slow down even more! You wonder if you will ever get a good night of sleep or if time will ever begin to move along.
Take it from me. You will get sleep. Time will move along. Time goes slow and time goes fast. Time seems to drag along behind us while at a job we don't love. I remember sitting in a middle school class while the "kids" were all but climbing the walls while the teacher was trying to teach (I actually think one boy was climbing the walls). I was looking at the clock, then I waited a VERY long time and looked again...and just ONE minute had passed!! Talk about slow! I thought that hour would NEVER end. It did. I DID have an eye twitch by the end of that hour, but it did end...that day.
Walking through a difficult time in life can feel as if you are stuck in the middle of time that will never move again. Depression and grief can hold us hostage in time for a while. It feels as if it will never change or heal...it will. It takes time.
Why do we "feel" time like this? We are anxious to grow up, then look back and realize that "adulting" is not as fun as it looked like a few years before. We can't wait to have a career, then look back and wish we didn't have to work all the time.
So, where DOES our time go? It goes into the people around us, the places we walk through and the things we do. Time is what God gives us to meet new people, build amazing friendships, enjoy places - whether new or if it's just your regular spot. Time heals wounds and time gives us new experiences. Time brings joy, laughter and sorrow. Time brings tears and hugs, coffee with friends and learning new skills. Time gives us babies to cuddle, toddlers to chase and teens to drive to the mall. Time takes your daughter through University and into her next incredible adventure.
I am so thankful that God is in charge of all things - even time! He is really the one who brings people into our lives, new jobs, new joys, new babies, new experiences. I know that if my beautiful daughters will follow God and His timing, He will direct their paths. He will show them their next adventure and be with them in all the ups and downs of this journey of life.
Time is what we are given. God is with us through every second. We just have to remember that He is there. Remember to enjoy our lives that we are given. Remember to pass along the joy of following God and His adventures to those we meet along the way.
Congratulations Mackenzie! We are very proud! We will be foldlowing your walk across the stage on our laptop. We will be watching from different time zones, but seeing the same thing. You, ending this time of your life at IWU, and beginning the next new journey that God has planned for you.
Love you and sending hugs and shouts of joy from Down Under!!
