Today is the second day of VBS, Vacation Bible School. Unlike so many years past, I am not teaching a class. I did work on the committee over the winter preparing for VBS. I have gone both mornings and kind of 'floated' around seeing if anything needed to be done. But both days I have left early and brought Aubrey home with me so she could take her nap. This is where I am most needed.
It's a wonderful thing to feel 'needed', to feel as though there is purpose to your life, there is a reason or there are reasons to get up in the morning. Being on the very edge of the 'empty nest', it's been time to reevaluate my reasons to keep pushing on. Thirty years of being a mom with kids in the house will be a very different thing when that last one leaves in August. Four walls and framed memories do not beckon with much purpose.
As I bend over a sleeping Aubrey and cover her with her big, yellow blanket, I am thankful for her, this 'reason to get up in the morning'. I am thankful that God gives me another purpose to be.
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