Missing My Rebeccah
Timewarp from August 30, 2025
Missing My Rebeccah
Friday she was off again. My second baby, my second adult, my sweet, sassy, independent woman of God. I spent the 45 minutes of the drive from the airport to work praying and thanking God for allowing me the honor of being her mother and letting me watch the woman she has become and is growing into. Fingerprints of God by Steven Curtis Chapman came on the radio. Yes, I see the fingerprints of God on all of my children and I thank God daily for blessing me with them.
Rebeccah is off to her senior year at Pensacola Christian College. She has decided she will likely continue on to her Masters. I’m so thrilled for her journey. I’m amazed by her. I am so glad she chooses to remain connected to me and us. The world would say cut the cord at 18. I pray my children stay close to me as long as they wish, hopefully all their lives, I want to stay available for talks, giggles, scrabble tournaments, and Bible studies. I have watched a lot of change this season. Christina, 21, is off on her new life. Rebeccah off to college again, Kimberly will soon be my 3rd adult, Jaquline starts her college journey… as many in college as I have in elementary and middle grades this year.
We Tart Ladies had started our own small group officially this past week. Rebeccah got to be in attendance! Every other Tuesday we’ll pick a coffee shop (Hastings Coffee Co was awesome) and have Bible study and woman time. Maybe someday we will add others, maybe not. It’s our little family woman time. Building each other up in Jesus.
I am so thankful. I had to not cry as I listened to, prayed with, and discussed life and the Bible passage with them that morning. I was by myself headed back to Jillian and my littles to go to work and sang my thankfulness again. Thank you, God, for your protection, mercy, and gift of my beautiful daughters.
Laud and Thea were sleeping in the van. It must have been 90s throwback morning on the radio… He Wants to be Just Like Me… I sang it as “the little ones” as I had as a teenager for my siblings. Yes, I want to be like You, Jesus, so that my children, from Christina to Laud, see You.
Now, Born for This rolls out and I’m smiling and enjoying. Yes, we were each Born for This. Born for the time we are in. Placed where God wants us in his timing and among the people He chooses. Thank you, that I have these wonderful young ladies in my life! Thank you for breath in my lungs. Thank you for my sleeping littles. I smile; I’m missing my Rebeccah and it hasn’t even been a day – but I’m so excited for what her future holds for her! I’m missing Christina, though she’ll be at work with me shortly. Each time Kimberly and Jaquline go house sit or animal sit, I’m missing them too. Part of my heart will always be with each of them wherever they go.
They are, just as I am, in God’s hands. I pray for them in my mind as I pull up to work. Thank you, again, for my family, Jesus.
Hope that was amusing!
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~Nancy Tart
