Made to Thrive

My heart is unsure...
Letting go of your kids is sometimes hard, sometimes a
little easier.
Today I'm faced with something that is harder for me.
Our daughter Katherine came to Jeff and me last night
and asked us to pray about something with her. She
wants to make a trip to Cambodia in September with a
team from our church. She wants to submit to our
authority as parents. It wasn't my 15 year old
daughter that we talked to last night. It was a young
woman who is called of God and passionate for seeing
others serve Jesus Christ.
We've known for years that the call of God was on her
life in the area of evangelism and missions. I'd just
hoped she'd be older before she left the country
without me!
Let me back up a little. At the age of 5, Katherine
came to me. I was reading my Bible, having my daily
devotional time with the Lord. Usually the kids knew
not to interrupt, but truth is that when they're little
they do interrupt. And if we're good parents, we smile
and listen to them, knowing that an interruption is no
big thing to God.
She came into the room with an announcement. "Mom." she
said, "In ten years, I'm going to the other side of the
world as a missionary." She was FIVE, so I started to
dismiss her with a laugh. But the Holy Spirit stopped
me short, telling me to listen to what she was saying
because she was prophesying. So we went to the globe
and looked together to see what was on "the other side
of the world." I saw China. But as I looked at a map
of Cambodia again this morning, guess what I noticed?
Yes, Cambodia is directly south of China. Cambodia is
on the "other side of the world".
Sigh... I'm not sure I'm ready for this. I know and
trust the missionary she would be traveling with, but
she seems so young.
Lord, not my will, but Yours. She is yours after all.