After Thanksgiving Blessing

It is always hard to get your young adult children together for many occasions. It is harder in my family this year because our daughter is an exchange student at the U of NM - many miles away. She went on a ski trip with some other exchange students and had a great time. They cooked their own Thanksgiving meal, which opened all of their eyes to different traditions from different parts of the country. My boys are still around here - temporarily! My oldest is leaving Thursday for Maui where he is going to be a hiking and rockclimbing guide. His partner on his last hike, the Continental Divide Trail, is already there doing this and Eric is going to join him. Because Jeffery is a mfg rep and goes out of town, leaving Sunday afternoon to reach their destination to be set up by Monday am, we decided to have a breakfast with them and their girlfriends Sunday morning. It was early for me - I needed some rest after the busy of Thanksgiving - but it was worth it. To have them together one last time before Eric leaves - for what may be a long time - was great. I just praise God for the wonderful young adults that my children have grown into. They don't always make the same choices I would have - but that is how life moves. I just ask God to watch over Eric in his move and to protect him in his trips with paying hikers.