Letting go......again.

Tonight's musings: Well it must be about pruning or cutting the apron strings or letting go. I think you get the picture. My daughter is in Africa. She had a situation. She needed me but couldn't get to me. She felt the weight of making the wrong decision, and I feel the sadness in my heart that I couldn't help her. Although the weight of consequences is one I want her to feel, but I want to be there to remind of truths like "we all fall short of the glory of God" and His mercies are new every day" and "there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ." There are many more that come to mind and I want to shout them from here to Africa so that she will hear them and be built up in the Lord and encouraged to keep running the race. I must trust that the one who wrote these truths in His word also has and will write them on her heart. He is forever faithful.

As a side note, she and I watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding recently and two of my favorite scenes are "why you want to leave me" and "Is he good boy, I don't know. Is he "something else" I don't know." Tonight I feel like this greek dad who has to let go. (By the way, his daughter is 30) MINE IS NOT. However all this is preparation for the future. What future "I don't know." Because I do not know what lies ahead for her or for me, but I do know this, the Creator of the Universe knew before the foundations of the earth that my daughter would go to Africa, and how He would use this in her life and mine. I also know that He is good and that He loves her with a pure love. My prayer tonight is that in this time and that place, that she will find Christ to be all she needs.