Fleeting Moments
Ice glistened on the bluffs and snow peeked through trees on the hills, when Ray and I drove home from church yesterday about lunch time. As soon as we got home, I hurried back out with my camera. I drove down to the river where fishermen park their cars on summer afternoons, up Kirkpatrick Hollow, and back to the river. I knew I had to hurry because just like that day when Frosty played with the children, the sun was hot and the scenes I wanted to capture were fleeting.
Later in the afternoon, I went to a sweet baby shower. As I sat with a couple of homeschooling mamas and one homeschooled daughter and watched the expectant mama open gifts for her first baby, Diana and Amy talked about how many more years they would get to homeschool before their youngest children graduate. Both wisely know that the days are fleeting. They are cherishing every moment.
As you look at these fleeting scenes that I saw yesterday, watch your children and cherish your precious moments.
There is an appointed time for everything.
And there is a time for every event under heaven . . .
Ecclesiastes 3:1
That’s EXACTLY how I feel….I get to homeschool and I’m so privileged. I wish I had cherished it more with my other girls, I’m on my last now and I already feel bereft and wondering what am I going to do when I grow up. She’s in 5th grade and I am loving it. Isn’t it a shame how much wiser we get with age?
Oh, yes. It’s like the man leaning out the window on the night of the senior prom said to George: “Aw, youth is wasted on the wrong people!” Tee hee!