There was a sense throughout vacation that this would be our last "family vacation", not in a morbid sense (we'll go on vacation again) but in the real sense that the clock keeps ticking forward no matter how hard we try to stop it, that after this vacation things would be different. For you see, the day after our vacation marked Lance's graduation from high school.
Chris and I have done all we can to train him intellectually, culturally, morally, emotionally and spiritually to be a better person in every way than us. I feel that should be the goal of every parent, to impart on society people who are better than those who came before them and I believe with Lance we have done just that. Though we will always be here to counsel him, from now on its his life. We pray with all our hearts it will be a life that exceeds his wildest dreams full of great joy and successes.
Selfishly, I'm really glad he didn't want any kind of party or celebration, he just wants to head out on his new journey, because I would have been a bawling mess and I really don't look good when I do that. When Pastor prayed over him and the other graduates this Sunday I barely kept it together. Jared did make him a really neat diploma with a majestic water mark and
seal, which I used on his impressive transcript. Those are the official marks of him completing high school but the story is so much more. So I will keep this post short, to follow behind 19 years of posts outlining his wonderful childhood and journey into manhood.
His new journey as a young man involves; baseball, getting an automotive degree from Wake Tech and working for Hendrick motors. Only God knows where each of these paths will lead or how long he'll be on them but I have faith that he will keep God close and I know God will never forsake him along any of the many paths his life will lead him. We could not be more proud of the man he has become, there just aren't words to express our love and pride in our wonderful young man.
Let the adventure begin!
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