My baby is leaving home! Oh, no! Oh, my! (Sniffle)

My elder son Liam is moving into an apartment with a roommate and will be attending the Horizons School in Birmingham. There he will learn how to manage his Autism and ADHD and prepare to either return to college or start a career of some kind.

It’s all great – a way forward after a couple of very difficult years. We’re so excited for him! Really pleased, and yet . . .

We’re also really sad! It’s the end of a precious period in our lives. We are a close-knit family and the pandemic extended that close time two years longer than it would have been otherwise. Now, it’s coming to an end. This stage of our lives is over.

All our lives are lived in stages, and when we shift from one to the next under the best of circumstances, it’s still both a gain and a loss.

I encourage us all to be attentive to the joys to be found in our current, respective stages. Like trying to grasp the wind, they cannot be held or stored. We can only experience them and then let them go.

Oh, my! (Smile, sniffle)

In wisdom and grace,
Rev. Ruth