I loved Road to Avonlea as a kid.
The photos above are from a particular episode in the early years. Sarah’s father was back to take her home, but she’d already settled in and loved her new found family. Even though they were crazy sometimes and fought and didn’t always agree. She still loved them and wanted to be with them. She didn’t want to go back to being alone.
I think that’s a feeling many of us experience. The fear of being alone. Not having someone to talk to whenever we want. Not having people to just ‘hang’ out with.
Change always comes. Sometimes the changes are just little things. Children grow up and go to school. You get a new job. But then there are those changes that change everything. Your friends, your children’s futures, your community. It’s funny how much you take your community for granted sometimes. You think they will always be there.
And then it hits. Your little girl’s first best buddy is moving. Your most trusted girl friend is leaving. People do things that make you reevaluate why you have given so much for a single cause. And will you continue? The blow is stronger when everything is changing. Our family is growing. Our girls are growing….haha, I’m growing! No really, everything is growing and changing.
Lil’ A seems so much more smarter (don’t we all say that about our 3 year olds? ) than I think a 3 year old should be. The little conversations we have about this very topic surprise me. She has so many questions. And I want to protect her from all these changes that are happening to our lives. But I can’t. It’s part of my job to walk through them with her. Not around them-completely avoiding the situation. The best part is that we have had time to say see you soon and that is the best thing I think my husband and I gave her. We’ve made memories with the girls that we couldn’t have done if we didn’t live for something, someone greater than us.
I guess that’s what’s important. Our relationship with God and how we follow him daily. That’s the legacy that I want to leave for my girls. The opportunity to see us living our lives according to what we believe is right. Not what someone else tells us, but what we hear from God ourselves.
Sometimes it’s hard to hear through all the noise. The opinions. The assumptions. The rumors. But ultimately, we have to make a choice.
I have always struggled with change. Change that makes you let go. But for these two,
I fight for the courage to be brave enough to step out and allow change to take over. Because really they are all that matters. To let God guide my footsteps, and for them to have that legacy is important to me.
