The love expressed is effortless and frequent. But there is a hidden message in each: put the love in your heart vault because the day is coming when your child goes AWOL.
AWOL is Away With Others' Lessons. During adolescence and young adulthood, your child will be a new creature who looks to others with admiration that is effortless and frequent.
That is the time you find the letter and draw encouragement out of your heart vault. You endure some loneliness as you patiently watch him discover his new world.
Someday his world circles back and draws you into it again. If you have endured in a healthy way, then he is even more healthy when he returns.
If your child is AWOL on this Mother's Day weekend, his unspoken love says, Thank you for my gift of freedom to find God's love in other people. Reread my priceless treasure that assures you 'there is only one mother in the whole wide world!'"
