This Friday and Saturday my amazingly gifted daughter returns to the stage with the Ragtown Gospel Band for two very special Homecoming Jubilee concerts!
The visit will be all too brief, and then she’ll be returning to Maryland where she now makes her home with the one and only son-in-law. It is a doubly special Homecoming for our clan, because Jency is coming home to be here when we welcome home a brand new addition to our family! Robin and I have loved being grandparents so well that we decided to have another one.
Of course, it took awhile for Jordan and Cassie, our son and Number 1…the one and only daughter-in-law, to get on board with our idea. And soon as Jency and Thomas move back to Texas, we’re planning for them to also start making some additions to the team. Robin and I have obviously decided that a move back to the Lone Star State would be best for them and for our grandchildren.
And of course, they do exactly what we decide they should do.
Okay…maybe not. But seriously, can there be a more fulfilling blessing than to see your adult children getting to experience whole spectrum of joy, love and marriage to a wonderful and like-minded mate? Both of our kids have found that very one for whom Robin and I prayed their whole lives. Cassie and Thomas have become our own, and we have a deep and ever-growing love and respect for both of them. We see how they have brought such happiness and a sense of completion to our most precious blessings. How could we not love them dearly for that?
We were completely immersed in our children’s lives when they were growing up, and we loved and savored every minute of it. We stand a bit on the sidelines now. Their lives are their own, and their happiness no longer depends upon our decisions, but instead, upon those they make with their mate, with their own family’s well-being paramount…as it should be. We’re savoring this new chapter just as much as the previous ones.
As I prepare my heart for these upcoming very special days, I am deeply thankful and so humbled that we are so richly blessed. Having Jency back with me on the stage at Ragtown will be a memory I will cherish always. Looking at the face of my beautiful new granddaughter or grandson for the first time will be another. Watching my son and his wonderful wife fall immediately in love with their brand new little one will be another. Seeing Robin hold her second grandbaby will be another…and the list goes on.
I hope you’ll come and celebrate with us this weekend. It will be a very special concert, and then we all get to laugh and be touched by the sweet story of “Saint John & The Televangelist.”
As always, and maybe more than ever right now…
In Dependence
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