At 6:00 this morning, we watched Sabrina walk through customs with her blue blazer on, heading for a different chapter in her life. She was the picture of grace as she did it.
Allison, Kimberly, Christopher and I were all peering over the ropes and past the hardware.
When I worry about Sabrina in Ecuador, I comfort myself with this notion of a guardian angel on her shoulder. I am not bold enough to say I believe it, but I an also not prideful enough to say it isn't so.
The truth of my life has found me on the other side of some obstacles that I know I didn't beat myself. As I look back, I know that I didn't have the character, brains, or guts to do some of the things I have done. I know there is an intangible force that sustains, guides, and supports us when the tank is dry but there are still miles to drive.
Today my evidence came in the form of Zoe. Just as the whole family was getting ready to give into the lonely image of Sabrina leaving alone and being put through the security theatre with us kept on the other side...... We see Zoe. Zoe is a girl from Albany High School who is also going to Ecuador. There she was in her blue blazer. By the time the line snakes twice, Sabrina and Zoe are oblivious to their families, and are shucking and jiving like it is a line at the grocery store. No additional tears, woe, dread.....nothing. While that is happening, Zoe's Mom and Kimberly are kibitzing about messy rooms, late night phone calls, and how the girls are still girls. Complaining is the comfort food of Mom's.
I was well pleased that my daughter handled this. I know most people would explain the "of courses" of 2 girls going to Ecuador meeting there. As for me.... I like to credit the angels. I am not willing to give them up. I like to think that my deceased grandparents, and Sabrina's deceased grandfather told those angels now precious this cargo is. I predict that over the next 10 months those angels will appear again and again.
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