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Monday, August 16, 2010

Days of Higher Learning


Dear friends, I wrote this poem after my daughter Amy went back to college in 1995. It is always sad to see our kids go off to college and start school. We raise them to be independent and then they listen..We have to let our children go. They will return. It is exciting to see where the Lord will take them. My kids are married now and have children of their own.

I'm thinking of you...as you let your children go.

God bless, Jennifer aka Gigi

Days of Higher Learning

Sweeping out the sand from the wood floors

In her quiet, empty bedroom

I realize that summer is over once again.

She packs up her life and her smile

And leaves to explore a world not yet known.

Autumn will come with its cool nights

And her memories will fill the air

With sad tears of yesteryear.

Her long hairs lying on the bathroom floor will soon be gone.

Her quiet, empty bedroom remains

To remind us that something is calling her onward

To greater heights

And we cannot go with her

And sadly we remain. (1995)