Today we’ll load up the family and drive a couple of hours to Chapel Hill so that we can celebrate our son, Parker, as he graduates from the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill.
If you’ve been tracking with us, you know that this is graduation number 2 in what I jokingly call the Graduation Gauntlet. Three graduations over 4 weeks, and today is the second in a week.
Basically, our lives now are all about graduations and celebrations. Sure, there’s stuff we do between the graduations — daily living is still a necessity — but most of our focus is on these three amazing moments and the three children who are living them.
It would be a shame if we lived that in reverse, wouldn’t it? If we allowed the normal routines of life to overshadow the celebrations? To wear us down to the point that we couldn’t enjoy the big moments?
Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:18 that all of us who follow Jesus are being changed into His image from glory to glory. Over the years, though, I’ve watched believers allow the joy of that promise to be overwhelmed by the mundane moments that happen between them.
But Jesus is in all of it! Just like our journey through the Graduation Gauntlet is from celebration to celebration, it doesn’t mean that we stop working and planning and living between the big moments, but it does mean that we’re thinking about our kids a lot in the days between and leading up to the big ones. It is “Will, Parker, and Sydney time” all the time now!
So it is with Jesus. May He be what dominates our lives, not just on the glory days, but on the common ones in between.
