A Mother's Prayer for Her Grown Child

One more rock
for the pile
I've been building.

My eldest son
graduated from high school
yesterday:
June 3, 2007.

The gift his class chose to give
to the school that groomed them
was a stone
for remembering.

How interesting.
So I pray

That the gift of things remembered
--the stories that might have died
in the hands of those who count themselves wise
but were instead preserved by the very hand of God--
may these stories be to your strength
in the future,
My son!