There is nothing quite like the blissful ache of
loving a child. The over-powering love that takes you through chaotic sleepless
nights, questioning the cry. Is she hungry? Is she tired? Is she hurt? Is she
sick? Trips to the doctor, tender moments of the first laugh or first step or
first step onto the school bus. That first step that opens up a world away from
you.
The
years move with ever-increasing swiftness, but the blissful ache remains. Are
they happy? Are they texting while they are driving? Will they be safe when
they go out? The love remains like a magnet. The mind consistently reacts to
their joy, their laughter, their pain, their hopes and dreams. There is no earthly comparison other than the love between husband and wife.
Our baby
girl is getting married in one month. My emotions are a roller coaster;
however, most of the emotions stay at the top where the view is bright and
clear. There is pride and hope and overwhelming joy and just a twinge of what?
Maybe a tough realization that there is a letting go. The letting go, however,
comes with an answered prayer, the fulfilled dream of raising a remarkable
human being. My husband and I have realized it twice. The Lord has blessed us
richly. The blissful ache of the deepest love. It’s what Jesus feels for you,
His child. It is an everlasting love.
The
Lord appeared to us in the past saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting
love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3
But
from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him, and
His righteousness with their children’s children. Psalm 103:17
See
what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called
children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us
is that it did not know Him. 1 John 3:`
Father,
Teach us how to lavish Your love onto our children.
The love we feel is beyond measure and yet there is no comparision to the way
You love us. Teach us how to accept Your love and pass it on generation to
generation.
In Jesus name,
Amen
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