It's Spring 2019 and I realize that my last child just turned 18 years old and I am no longer a mother of children but of adults. Of course, at 18 there is still much to be learned, but the focus is not so much on the parents as it is on the contribution of what the parents have taught so that the transition to adulthood can be made. When I took this photo of the Trillium years ago in my back woods, little would I realize how much it means. Tri being three, three leaves on the the blossum, and three leaves is such a reminder of the Trinity. Oh, how I have needed the Tri-une God in my life, the three aspects of God which have sustained us through so many many trials. Would I do it over again if given a choice? That does seem to be an impossible question, one not even worth considering. So many questions in my life are like that. I must acknowledge for my health and well being, that God made right the crooked wrong path, he instructed in the way to go, and he used so many patient people in my life to wake me up to my selfish, inconsiderate and worldly heart. I can only pray that the years ahead will be using what I have learned rather than more selfishnesss or stubbornness. Lord, guide me out and through my inadaquacies, too high expectations, too low or selfishness just to simply serve you and my neighbor, in Jesus name, amen.
