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The "Empty" Nest


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Ugghh, I tell you letting your kids grow up is hard!!! Or at least hard for me.  I still am blessed to have all my kiddos living at home, but that doesn't mean they are always here  This summer they have all reached an age where they have lives outside of their mama!!! Haven't I been praying for this?  Wasn't this my goal all along? 

I feel like I have spent more time this summer alone in my house than since before I had children.  They are either outside playing, spending the night with friends, at a practice.....the list goes on and on.  I am missing them.  I am missing the constant questions and demands of having littles.  Really?   

I am praying now for peace and direction for this new stage of my life.  I am ready to accept God's guidance to brave these new waters.  I pray for safety and guidance for each of my kiddos as they become more independent and are making more choices for themselves.  I pray that they make wise choices and remember what their parents and God expect from them.  Without God, this transition would be much scarier. 

We are to instruct a child in the ways that they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it. (loose interpretation from the Bible)

"Letting our children go" is a lifelong process for parents, one that we wrestle with again and again, and each parent has to wrestle with it in his or her own way. -- Mister Rogers  

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