March 26
Our Joy in Drew
He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground….
Isaiah 53:2 (KJV)
One of the great joys and tender sorrows of parenthood is seeing your children grow up and leave home. When our son Drew left home last month for his second year at college, it hit my wife harder than the previous year.
I asked myself why that was, and I imagined it was because Drew had matured so much over the summer. In early June, we had concerns he would not find a job. It seemed to us he wasn’t pursuing job opportunities as aggressively as we would have liked. Still, God answers prayer, and he got a great job working with United Pipe all summer long. Recently, the company had won a contract with the City of Bend to inspect and repair some 500 fire hydrants. Drew was trained for the project, given tools, equipment, a truck and the responsibility to get it done. So, for three months, he searched for, located, inspected, and then fixed damaged fire plugs ... all under a scorching, high-desert sun.
In the process, he got a deep tan; he bulked up and every night it seemed he walked through the door a little taller, a little more sure of himself. By August, he had gone from being a somewhat unsure, one-year-out-of-high school student to being a self-confident adult. Wow!
Drew will always be our son, and a special one at that, but this year he grew into his manhood—a joy to us all.
Father, give our son joy in independence but greater joy in trusting and loving You. Amen.
Our Joy in Drew
He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground….
Isaiah 53:2 (KJV)
One of the great joys and tender sorrows of parenthood is seeing your children grow up and leave home. When our son Drew left home last month for his second year at college, it hit my wife harder than the previous year.
I asked myself why that was, and I imagined it was because Drew had matured so much over the summer. In early June, we had concerns he would not find a job. It seemed to us he wasn’t pursuing job opportunities as aggressively as we would have liked. Still, God answers prayer, and he got a great job working with United Pipe all summer long. Recently, the company had won a contract with the City of Bend to inspect and repair some 500 fire hydrants. Drew was trained for the project, given tools, equipment, a truck and the responsibility to get it done. So, for three months, he searched for, located, inspected, and then fixed damaged fire plugs ... all under a scorching, high-desert sun.
In the process, he got a deep tan; he bulked up and every night it seemed he walked through the door a little taller, a little more sure of himself. By August, he had gone from being a somewhat unsure, one-year-out-of-high school student to being a self-confident adult. Wow!
Drew will always be our son, and a special one at that, but this year he grew into his manhood—a joy to us all.
Father, give our son joy in independence but greater joy in trusting and loving You. Amen.
posted by Craig Soderquist at 8:16 AM
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