ANTICIPATION
We made plans to have dinner with our daughter and her family…
(It’s nearing the end of their summer vacation)
And as the day approached it made me wonder
how much of our life is spent in anticipation.
How life is a lot like reading a book…no matter what our age
We’re happy experiencing the moment…
while anticipating what’s on the next page.
Birthdays and holidays from the time we’re young…
going to school…dating…
think of all the times in life we spend anticipating.
When we find someone to share our life with…and we ask them
we anticipate with hope in our hearts what they might say…
We anticipate a life together…as we prepare for our wedding day.
When we decide to have children…to begin creating and raising a family
We anticipate who each baby will look like…and the kind of person they’ll grow up to be.
And if we’re lucky…in the life we chose…the one we have created…
the joy and happiness we feel in the moment…is more wonderful than we anticipated.
That is exactly what happened to both Deborah and to me
when we finally sat down to dinner with Ali and her family.
As we drove away from the restaurant…what should catch our eye…
but a double rainbow stretching across the eastern sky.
Proving we can be blessed to fill the book of our life
with special pages we create…
But we’re also blessed that are book is filled
with special pages we could never anticipate.
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