Growing Delight

      I shared a brief version of this idea on Facebook. Here is the longer version.  

 

Growing Delight 

 

I know it will not last, 

my grandchildren will outgrow me, 

not only in stature,

though that will happen soon enough. 

I've lost an inch of my meager height already. 

 

My grandchildren will outgrow me 

through new friends and interests. 

But for now, I watch them run,

 eager and smiling, toward my front door 

as if a great delight awaited them.

 

 I glimpse heaven's joy foretold

in the looks on their faces.

That is what the Lord will see  

when I enter heaven's door,

the look I will see, when He welcomes me.

 

And there, I will continue to grow,

not beyond my Delight, 

but growing more like Him.

Eager, smiling, running toward the Lord. 

And it will last forever. 

 

7/23/25