Jon’s Med School Graduation
On May 15, 2016, my little boy, Jonathan Andrew Isbell became Doctor Jon Isbell!
And words don’t even go there…
So treasure these things up in your heart, girl because no one else on earth will ever know, other than your precious, precious God just how the GLORY got all over your heart and nearly suffocated your soul that day!!!
Soul breathlessness.
…How the light of God’s presence just spread itself ALL OVER ME;
…How I must have been watching with my soul as much as with my eyes;
For utterly,
unexpectedly…
what I saw walk into that arena was a beautiful little blonde headed boy…
And with each step…
he grew…
as he walked closer to me…
And when he was close enough to look up at my eyes,
……..There he was……
A man.
In an instant…
Right before my eyes.
“That’s still my little boy,” my soul cried. But nobody knew.
“My Lord and my God! That’s my little boy!”……
ONLY….
He’s not a little boy at all.
He’s the most distinguished man, robed and wearing tassels of honor….
That charming child with stars in his eyes that gripped my heart and wrapped himself round about it, in and out, through and through and captivated me forever…
My “Sunshine”….
There he walks…
Tall, handsome, manly, wise, brilliant, Godly, noble…
That’s my son.
No….
Nobody will ever know-
Only my God and I who shared every precious and hellacious moment of raising him and loving him until this moment.
And my heart falls broken before my God because there’s no question what brought us to this day…
It’s the same thing that’s carried me all my life…
GRACE.
THAT’S ALL.
Just GRACE.
Just GRACE.
I am nothing but a debtor to some BIG, BIG, MEGA STUPENDOUS
GRACE.
I love you, little boy of mine!
You won’t ever really know.
But here….
treasured up in my heart…
there’s a vast ocean of love that no one’s ever seen the depths of…
Just me…
And my God.
And that’s enough.
How COULD anyone know…
It’s too vast and too wide and too deep and too sacred.
I guess we’ll just carry that little treasure together in my heart until the day I die, sweet Jesus…
Just You…
And me!