When it was time to say good-bye to E and N, I didn't cry. I didn't even get a little teary like I did when M left for Australia. Surprisingly I also didn't hold the emotion in and then burst into tears a few miles down the road.
The only explanation I can come up with as to why I was able to keep my composure is answered prayer and a sense of peace.
Before the big day, I prayed that God would help me to not cry or, worse yet, sob when G and I said our final good-byes and got in the car and drove off, and thankfully, He was faithful to answer my prayer. Additionally I felt convicted that E and N are where God has placed them.
I have experienced this sense of conviction before when we left E at Hope for her first semester of college. E was a little teary that Sunday afternoon after the Opening Convocation, but I wasn't. In the morning, at the worship service in the chapel on campus, God gave me a peace about E's choice of Hope College for her undergrad degree. He assured me that He had intentionally guided E to Hope and that He had good things planned for her in this place.
Likewise nine years later, over the course of the few days that we spent with E and N, helping them to settle into their new home in Virginia, God showed me that this is where He wants my daughter and son-in-law to live for the next year or two or three.
I was surprised I didn't cry, but God wasn't. He had it all under control. : )
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