Given that dad had shoulder surgery a week before Emma's departure date, and I had an ACL replacement surgery the day after Dad's surgery- we were quite a mess and a sideshow sending you off. I am sure it took a little extra faith to trust we'd be okay- I know it took a lot of extra faith for us to trust you'd be okay. We drove down the night before adn stayed in a hotel near the airport. You'd had hard goodbyes with your siblings the night before- and ours with you were the last hurdle and it broke our hearts but also felt like such a trust. These goodbyes are tender and hard, and a faith leap- a miserable joy- a blessing- an offering to the Lord.... a handoff-
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