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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: BEGINNING
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
It’s a significant weekend in our family! Our daughter completed her final exam of her college career this week, and this Sunday we get to witness her graduation. She’ll be receiving her Bachelor’s degree — and she did it in three years with a double major! (Can you tell I’m a little proud?) 😉
This past week I was reflecting back on the weekend we dropped her off for her first year of college, three hours from home. (And yes, I cried for three days after that initial drop-off.)
I wondered this week why her high school graduation felt so different from what I’m feeling now as I anticipate her college graduation.
Then it hit me:
Her high school graduation felt like an ending for me. The end of twelve years of schooling, of parent responsibilities including driving hither and yon and attending all manner of events and activities. It felt like the end of an era, knowing that she would be transitioning into adulthood, leaving home, and living on her own.
But this college graduation three years later? This feels like a beginning.
Yes, as I shared a couple of weeks ago in this space, every goodbye still takes a piece of my heart. But I’ve slowly and gradually adjusted that she doesn’t live at home anymore.
And now this chapter is ending and a new one will soon begin.
STOP.
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Join the link-up with your own five-minute freewrite on the writing prompt, BEGINNING, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
There was a poet who once wrote,
“Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay!”
That might get the Western vote,
but it’s not the Asian way.
We live, one harvest to the next,
and then it all goes ’round again,
and to me it gives sub-text
that the cycle will remain
true to changing seasons,
and true to changing selfsame hearts
that seek rebellious reasons,
but settle down to play their parts
in a world that God has trained
to carry out what He ordained.
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I feel like I have to apologise for this. It’s the product of a brain injured by a very severe concussion, and may therefore present an inconsistently skewed message?