Graduation!

In and amongst Mother's Day and six birthdays within the family, May becomes full of graduation announcements... kindergarten, high school, college, and graduate school. The local card shop sees me coming and get out the BIG BAG for the plethora of cards, gift wrap, and trimmings I require to get through the month.

Yesterday at our Calvary Learning Academy graduation, my eyes puddled up with tears as the kindergarten students marched in to Pomp and Circumstance with their bright blue graduation gowns. Happens to me every year. Must be allergies. (Next year will be a very bad year of 'allergies' because my kiddo and two of my other favorite young people will graduate!)

Now that I am no longer graduating from anything I get really sentimental and emotional about these sorts of things. Cannot figure out why.

Is it about achievement? Young people reaching for their dreams? Reaching out to the next challenge? Or is it about all the debt young people incur for their higher education and the loans that I know can weigh them down?

Whatever the cause of my emotional response, graduations are indeed distinguishing marks in time and life circumstance. They are simply another marker on the path...