When we arrived the campus was dead because it was July. There was no one for her to get to know because there was no one there, only her parents and the squirrels. Looking back, it was really tough. I wouldn't be able to find her. I walked the campus only to find her under a tree with her art or her journal, or her camera. Tough days. Then the sun came out! Thank God for the breakthrough. At that time it was the month on the calendar! The end of August came. Registration began for new students and then the move in to the dorm. Wow! She had more activity, more friends, more excitement than could fit in one day!
And now four years later we wonder how did it pass so fast? Four wonderful years in Phoenixville. I think of all the dance recitals, violin performances, poetry readings, exams, friends, professors, being an assistant resident director, being honored for a certain academic success, all the many parts of university life that encompassed her life and saturated my prayer life, and now it's over.
I struggle with endings. I struggle with change. This conclusion to her life has affected me much more than her! I think of how I will miss flying into Philadelphia just to see her first before I would travel on to the next matter of business. I will miss being on the university campus and making order out of her room as only a mom can. I will miss buying college "stuff" for her and her dorm room. I will miss watching chapel each day that it was on the web. For eight years chapel has been part of my routine. While Ryan was there and now Renée. Just to see the same thing they saw and heard for an hour a day made this missionary mom heart feel complete.
Life keeps moving. I must also as hard as it is.
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