Article December 26, 2011 ISSUE

College transitions: a mom's prayer

By Beth Haden

Transitions can sometimes be hard, and to be perfectly honest, as a parent I’d been dreading the moment when our daughter would head off to college.

We share a lovely bond, and for years I had envisioned myself, as if in some dramatic movie scene, falling apart at the seams and sobbing uncontrollably as we hugged goodbye and my husband and I left to return to the “empty nest.” Even though our particular “nest” would thankfully still be occupied by our younger son for a few more years, it still seemed like a huge upheaval was bound to occur because of our daughter’s absence.