My oldest is a young lady. I have been seeing little glimmers lately but on Sunday there were two experiences that just blew me away, the first is the external, she came in on Sunday morning to barrow some earrings and I was blown away at what I saw before me, gone way the awkward girl that I had just seen at the breakfast table , there standing in front of me was a young woman, a young woman that I have had the privilege of building into for the last 8 years, a young woman who will shortly be a teenager. (YIKES!!)
The second, and most dear to me is an exchange she had with her brother who had to apologize for relaying some miss information that could have blown up in his sisters face. That very same day, as I sat behind my daughter as she listened to her brother tell of what he had done and ask forgiveness for potentially ruining her first day at school I was amazed, and in awe of just WHO this young woman is. She sat there and in the midst of a situation we would all agree she had every right to blow up over and calmly asked the right questions and the preceded to give her brother some words of wisdom that she had to learn the hard way herself. I, sitting behind her there on the bed, could not have been prouder!! She handled herself with grace and was able to singlehandedly take a difficult situation and turn it into a learning experience.
She is growing up. She is growing into a beautiful woman inside and out!! And as her mother I am so very overwhelmed at the gift God has given me of "helping" her make this transition.
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