Fast
It’s been a little while since I last blogged on this site. Not a long while . . . just a short while. But it’s funny how much has gone on in the short while that it has been. So much in my life, and I’m sure all of your lives has happened in the past two months that it’s hard to believe it’s only been TWO MONTHS.
What gets me the most is how much has happened with my kid. He went from a little bump on a log that lays around and is happy all day to a crawling, screaming, hilarious chunk of a boy! In two months he learned to crawl at speeds I’m not even sure I could maintain . . . and he knows when to put those jets to the max (when I’m chasing him).
These two precious months with my child I will never get back. He will never go back to laying on the ground and being peaceful. Those are moments that have slipped away. My wife and I have made it a point to talk about these moments as often as possible so that we don’t miss them. We don’t want to look back at our son’s life and wish we would have appreciated those moments more.
Don’t let those moments fall through the cracks. There are so many things going on in our worlds that can easily distract us from what is most important. Our kids need us to be present in those moments, to be IN the moment so that we won’t look BACK at the moment and wonder how we missed it.
Josh Bollen
High School Worship Leader
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Your post rings more true this week than ever before for me. This week, a mother and father had their 13 year old ripped from their lives. Never again to play a game, talk, argue, or any of the other things we take for granted every day. I feel guilt in my relief that it wasn’t my child, and thankful for the opportunity to do better with what I hope is already a good relationship. Parents, hug your babies, no matter how old they are. They truly are a gift from God, and we don’t know how long we get to keep that gift.