Sometimes, in the middle of the most ordinary of events, we have one of those special moments that remind us of why we are working to create a decent future for our children and grand children.
This afternoon we made a trip to the local park to burn some energy off the grand kids before they began their two day road trip back home with their mother. Towards the end of the play time, I was scaling a sloping climbing wall behind my three year old grand daughter, making sure that she wouldn’t tumble down, when she stopped and turned to me.
“Granddad, I’ll miss you when we get to our hotel tonight”
By itself this would have been enough to make my day, but the follow up ..
“But I’ll dream of you”
brought a lump to my throat, and strengthened my hope that, despite all that divides us, the love of our children and grand children remains a force that motivates us to work to ensure that we leave them a world in which they can grow and flourish, a world that, for the joy they give us, is certainly the very least they deserve.