Let your love flow....

I'm sure everyone has had this experience at one time or another.

What am I talking about? Well, this morning I woke up, early....it's Saturday, I usually do not wake up early on Saturday mornings. I think it's because we're getting ready to leave on vacation for a week. Our whole family is going to Cor d'Alene, Idaho. We are all looking forward to it. It's our yearly family vacation! This is an important trip for us for a number of reasons. Mostly because, my kids aren't getting any younger. I alluded to that in my last few posts regarding my daughter, Nicole. The last 5 years have been particularly difficult on me as I have been watching her change daily, right before my eyes. Yes, they are supposed to grow up and have all that autonomy and stuff....but, I am having a hard time letting her go. We have prayed for her (and still do...) and hope that all that we have taught her will stick with her. This is where the deep roots we have given her over the years (we pray) will not be pulled out by negative outside influences or that she'll have to spend years in therapy.....hhaha. She has made her faith her own. Something that we have encouraged in both of our children. Yes, we have guided them and I still have difficulties with wanting to tell her what to do and how to do it. Then she looks at me, quite exasperated and says, "Mom, I know that already!!" So these years have been about, what "She knows!" and "I have somehow become....irrelevant.....I don't know a thing!!" Ha ha....does this sound familiar?....oh...for those of my friends that still have small children....enjoy it while it lasts.....one day your child will wake up and decide that "YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING....AND THEY KNOW EVERYTHING!!!" It's enough to set your teeth on edge! But I smile and remind them that "I have lived alot longer than you and that I'll always have your back......and I'll always be here for you and always love you no matter what you do with your life.." I'm not proned to give advice, but here's a little from moi: For those moms who may be receiving a little of this attitude from your pre-pubescent teens or teenagers.....Let your love flow....(that's what I'm hearing in the background right now, as I write this....the Creator works in strange ways....)

Wow, what a rambling this morning....that wasn't quite what I wanted to say. I was actually going to write about my favorite song that TOTALLY reminds me of when I was young! Yep....you know what song's do that for you. I have a song like that reminds me of summer, the smell of summer....those long summer days. The smell of fresh cut green grass. Riding along on my bike through the neighborhood and pulling up to a stop sign with another car along side me, I can hear my favorite song blaring on the am radio station (lyrics are below).

There's a reason
for the sunshine sky
there's a reason
why I'm feeling so high
must be the season
when that love light shines
all around us
So let that feeling
grab you deep inside
and send you reeling
where your love can't hide
and then go stealing
through the summer nights
with your lover

Chorus: Let your love flow
like a mountain stream
let your love grow
with the smallest of dreams
and let your love show
and you'll know what I mean
it's the reason

Let your love fly
like a bird on a wing
let your love bind you
to all living things
let your love shine
and you'll know what I mean
that's the reason

So let that wonder
take you into space
and lay you under
it's loving embrace
feel the thunder
as it warms your face
you can't hold back

(Bellamy Brothers)

ENJOY.....THE REST OF YOUR SUMMER....I KNOW I WILL BE DOING JUST THAT!