My daughter is at the airport as we speak, heading off to Colorado for a month of summer school to study drawing. It’s an exciting time but there has been some trepidation, as well, mostly about the chaos of the airport and the margin for error in getting from here to there. I turned to one of my favorite devotionals this morning, “The Desert of the Heart,” which features short excerpts from the writings of the early desert fathers, and this is what I read:
“Three monks met unexpectedly at the river bank and one of them said, ‘I ask as a gift from God that we should arrive at our destination without fatigue in the power of the Spirit.’ Scarcely had he prayed when a boat was found ready to sail together with a favourable win and in the twinkling of an eye they found themselves at their destination, although they were travelling upstream.”
Godspeed, my beautiful girl. May you be blessed with every good thing.
Heather Choate Davis 