How Can That Be?

Early last week I opened an email addressed to the parents of seniors. Yep, I should have known better. Sometimes its better to hide from reality than let it smack you hard in the face.

 I've only had 18 years to know and prepare, but somehow just having the knowledge didn't quite prepare me. 

Nick is graduating in May!

 How, or better yet, when did that happen? 

That email  reduced me to tears. That email  rocked my world. That email  left me shaking and quivering. What kind of email can do that to a rational adult? It listed all the dates concerning my graduating senior. It wasn't meant to create such emotion,  but it did. I wonder if it made all the other mothers emotional, or was it just me?

The first date to be noted was this past Friday at 3pm where the senior class would "chalk" their names onto the plaza and then toast (sparkling apple juice) the last 2,013 hours of school till graduation! 

Can you find Nick's name?

Oops! I cut off the N.

What a cool tradition! And a great way to kick off the beginning of the end. Although, Nick just joined this class for their senior year, I realized many of these seniors have been in the same class since the early primary years- possibly Kindergarten. I think of my second graders. For the majority, they have been together already for three years. What will they be like in ten years?

I know that moving to Taiwan for his senior year had to be difficult. I know many people thought we were cruel and inhuman to subject our son to  such a move. Some things just don't make sense to us humans.  But God knew exactly what Nick needed.  

I am very proud of Nick. He put aside his expectations and allowed God to put His plan into action. For his senior spotlight in the yearbook, Nick has included Jeremiah 29:11. Wish I had rested on that verse when I was graduating!