I have been in the process of reading back through the blogs I have written this year, mainly to see what God has been showing me in my life. In doing that again today, I came across one I wrote in April when Sawyer was accepted to his first-choice college.
Now the time is almost upon us that he is leaving home and going to Maine to study. He will leave this next Sunday, with his parents driving him. We will go to Charlotte to stay with Sydney, not that she really needs us, but she is only 15, and, I guess, should have some adults around.
This is a whole new chapter in the lives of all in this family. He is our first grandson to go off to school and his grand parents look on that as both pridefully and fearfully. He has the work ethic to succeed. He has a good foundation morally, and we pray that he will find other believers there that will help him to, not only succeed in college, but thrive.
Sawyer will go from being a big fish in a small pond to the opposite. He has been a top runner in his area, but now will find that there are other "top runners" competing with him. He has been on top academically, now he will find others in the same category, and maybe even better. He will find students and teachers that may have conflicting beliefs, and he will be challenged to think for himself and not rely on what parents or grandparents believed or taught. He will have a whole new set of authority figures and peers. Scary but part of growing up, too.
His parents will drive home from Maine in a quieter car. The house they return to will be much the same. They will miss him and be proud of him at the same time. It is not easy with the first one going away.
He will do his best, because he is built that way.
What will we do, we who are left at home?
PRAY
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