While I was with them I helped teach two of my grandchildren to ride their bikes without training wheels, and one of them switched to one
training wheel. My little three; Riley, Gracie, and Kenzie, going down the road, well not really going anywhere...yet.
Oh my!
They were
absolutely ridiculously funny, wobbly, all arms and legs, eyes wide open squealing
and of course scraped knees, tears. My
daughter, my son-in-law and myself, we three, were filled with anxious anticipation as
we held up, picked up, ran alongside and called out; slow down, watch the road, turn,
turn, stop at the stop sign, STOP! Put your foot down, watch where you’re going...and
then “Ohhh Nooo!”
We cheered and clapped
and watched pride smiling and we wiped faces tear stained. I wondered what the neighbours thought as
they watched my little three zig zag the street with their accomplishment and
pride as they learned how to ride their bikes.
My pride, these three, who are fast entering a new chapter to their
young life and many new kinds of learning how.
I am
learning something new too, every day a little something comes my way. Some of them are old things, things I already
knew but now I have to learn in a new way.
Some of them are new things, things I have to learn new, fresh, on my
own. Some things I thought I knew, but I
found out that I never did know them at all.
I am
learning to think differently, to be more sensitive, I am learning that I’m not the only one
learning.
Now that’s a revelation...I am
not the only one learning.
To learn is
to do, to endure, to complete, to cope with, to accomplish and to manage all
things. To learn is to gain knowledge, to acquire experience, to become aware...we are all learning together, zig zagging down the same streets showing
off our accomplishments, cheering one another on and hopefully, we are picking each other up and wiping one anothers tear stained faces...
Down
the road we go, learning how.
"My dear, dear friends! I love you so much. I do want the very best for you. You make me feel such joy, fill me with such pride. Don't waver. Stay on track, steady in God."
Phillipians 4:1 the Msg
