Have you ever noticed how fast 65 mph feels when you are in
the back seat of seat of a car, as your 14 year old son is getting ready to
drive onto the interstate for the first time?
Your mind starts to race in a million different directions. Fear and anxiety begin to wrap their
tentacles around your heart and your mind and they begin to choke out all reasonable
thoughts. If you have watched the movie
Inside Out, you can imagine my emotions have reached a DEFCON threat level.
I took a deep breath and I knew I needed to pray to calm my
mind. Help me Jesus, is all I could manage
to say silently to myself. I didn’t want
my husband or sons to know I am on the verge of a mental breakdown. I also did not want my son to think for one
minute he could not handle driving on the interstate. The
issue was all in my mind.
Jesus came and quieted my thoughts with one of my favorite
passages of scripture. “I will never forget you, I have engraved you
on the Palm of my hand. “ Isaiah 49: 15b-16a I
needed the picture in my mind of God holding Jacob and the car in the palm of
his hand. It filled me with peace.
Jacob is an excellent driver and ready to drive in challenging
situations. I am thankful and grateful to
know he will never travel alone, even when we are not in the car with him.
As a Mom have you gone through this already? What helped you? If you haven’t please know you have a tribe
of women praying for you.
The love this song, it is based on Isaiah. It is beautiful and reflective.
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