pushing away from the gate

seems such a smooth, calm process (albeit loud) when you're in an airplane and that 4-wheeled truck outside pushes, really drives, the plane backwards, away from the gate. the truck backs off and goes to its next chore while the plane eventually gets in line for takeoff.

why can't it be that way when getting my kids in line for take off, for launching from the childhood nest? it has been anything but a smooth, calm process. a different sort of spiritual trouble could start a brewing if i tarry asking the "why" questions about this (or anything). the scripture is replete with dialogues between God and men along the lines of why so this is nothing new. but somehow  - even with the benefit of scriptures -  posing the questions is still therapeutic and i believe God knows we're gonna pose them anyway. He built us, He knows our frame through and through and knows our angst as parents and our kids' angst as they try to grow up and launch. a little rhetorical why is good for the soul, for them and us. now this is very important:  i'm not going to dwell on it, i know nothing comes of that. but acknowledging what is, sure helps me a lot.

in searching thru the book of job, i found a handwritten notation by chapter 38 where God begins asking job questions for three chapters. He asks job ~ 80 ?'s. but He never tells job "why" he suffered.  there was comfort a plenty for job in who God is.  amen.