project 52/33.

{slow down and look back}

When my son was a little boy, we were vacationing in Colorado
and he urged me to look back to get a better view of the majestic Rockies.
"Look behind you, Mommy, and you will be joyful."
His words have been tucked away in my heart ever since.

He left for his final year of college this week.
As I tidied up (as all mothers must do after their children leave home),
I found, in penmanship so much like his dad's, the words to a song he had written the week before.
And so I sat down and did what that boy had told me to do years ago.
I looked back
and
I was joyful.