Off to a good start on this vacation!

Presently, I am sitting in the Cincinnati airport (which is actually located in Kentucky). My 15, soon to be 16 year-old daughter is reading her new book, sitting one leg curled up, next to me. Tonight we are going to North Dakota.

When I arrived at my two oldest children's boarding school, I ran into my son at the stairwell of his dorm. Surprised, he looked up and I was there. His brain registered for a second that it was me and he exclaimed, "Mom!" and he threw his arms around me and gave me the greatest hug in the world.

The last and other time that I got that type of hug was about nine months ago when he got kind of caught in a bad situation and hugged me with his arms hanging around my neck, crying and I comforted him. Sons! Sons and mothers. What a wonderful, beautiful combination. How easy it would be to mother him forever, and while I always will be his mother, a mother walks his son to about the onset of manhood, and then while mothers continue to guide, really it is men who bring boys, in terms of role modeling, most effectively into godly manhood. May God grant him strong and effective godly role models.

May the Lord bless my being an effective role model to my supremely great daughter who is still reading by my side (#1 in her class). May He establish her firmly upon the mount of His grace and provision, security, godliness and wisdom.