Cycle of Life

 I just found out that my number two son, will have his number one son in twenty more weeks!  Now here technology has found a good place.  His text message was full of exclamation points and excitement!  Rightly so, too. It seems like yesterday that I had this number two son. And, really in that short time has technology advanced. Back in the day, we did not know if were having a son or daughter until the doctor told us at delivery. Frankly, I found it quite exciting to find out that way. We called our parents with the news from the labor room.  Of course our little guy's life hung in the balance since, God's timing for him to be born was at 29 or 30 weeks.  I remember the doctor telling me that his little life hung in the balance and he may not survive, and here he is having his first son.

Do you ever find yourself amazed at the beautiful cycle of life?  One day, and it will come faster than he thinks, his son will tell him that he will be a grandfather.  Wonder how technology will change in the next few years?  Will they video conference?  Gee, maybe they can do that already!  I am so not into the whole technology thing. I am for old-fashioned things, things that I see passing before me to be forgotten in future generations.  A simpler way of life.

In Lark Rise to Candleford Flora Thompson ends her book  by saying, "As she went on her way, gossamer threads, spun from bush to bush, barricaded her pathway, and as she broke through one after another of these fairy barricades she thought, 'They're trying to bind and keep me.' But the threads which were to bind her to her native country were more enduring than gossamer. They were spun of love and kinship and cherished memories."(Page 537)  Maybe technology is that for me?  But it is cherished memories indeed that bind me.