My parents are coming up this week and moving in with us. We have added an in-law suite to our house and Mom and Dad are moving up and in. My parents are doing well and both are healthy but times they are a changing. This week is the prologue to a role reversal. Nearly 50 years ago they welcomed me into their home. By doing so they committed themselves in a number of ways. They provided a life for me complete with baseball games and birthday parties and doctor's appointments. Now it is my turn to welcome them into my home. By doing so I am signing up for a life change as surely as they did 50 years ago. They never acted like it was a burden to have me in their home as their son. The baseball games and the visits to the doctor were just part of the fabric of their life. That is the way I want it to be for me with them now. I figure in the next 10 years I will take them to the doctor and help them with their medicine and drive them places. They are my parents and like I was their son we are in this together. It is a privelege not many people have. I am glad I have the chance to give to these who have given so much to me over the years. So, this Friday, I will wait for them to pull up to my house. It will probably be the last move they will make. I am so glad I will be the one to welcome them home.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
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Wisdom...That's what comes to my mind when I think of your Father.I remember a sermon in which he read almost all of a chapter in Matthew. That may not seem unusual but he had memorized the whole thing. What a blessing you have been given! Your Mother and Father reflected Jesus to Anne & I. We will never forget the impression the 2 of them have had on our lives.
Your Father has absorbed what he has learned and lives the way God instructed. Our Christian life calls us beyond "Knowledge" but to "Wisdom". That's why I can think of wisdom when I think of Roland!
What an example you live. My in-laws made a home for my husband's grandfather, and I am thankful that my children saw their devotion and constancy to the "fabric of life". It was your final line that struck me, however. A recent face-to-face with my mortality has left me a bit shaken but happier than ever to be in His hands. I've thought about death and what an exciting, humbling honor it will be to be able to again welcome my children Home one day. Go boldly into that new suite, and into this honorable chapter of your life!
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