Many of you are probably familiar with the prayer ministry Moms in Touch. Perhaps you have prayed for your child(ren), teachers and schools as part of this ministry on a school campus, in a home or a coffee shop. Connie Kennemer led worship for twenty years at Moms in Touch events. She wrote a song called, Fly Away, as her son Todd went off to college. She captures both the growing-up years and the letting-go beautifully in her lyrics.

At this time of year as you send your kids off to school, college and jobs you might identify with these emotions and find comfort from this sweet friend.

Love, Barbara and Susan

 FLY AWAY

Tricycles and Dr. Seuss
Cookie Monster, Mother Goose
Times tables and chicken pox
Tying shoes and matching socks
Kissing you and wiping tears
Measure inches, count the years
You steal my heart, I hold your hand
The little boy becomes a man

Fly away … Child of mine
Fly away … It is time
I’ve packed up all your yesterdays
I’m framing your todays
The Lord holds your tomorrows
So I stretch my hand and say
Fly away

Prayers I whispered, prayers I cried
Asked the Lord to be your guide
He won your heart at three years old
And still we watch His plan unfold
Now you’re grown and soon you’ll part
Years of prayer have shaped your heart
I trust you now into God’s hands
Release you now— my child, a man

Fly away… Child of mine… Fly away…

Connie Kennemer. © 1998 Kenn-Owen Music
www.songsthatpray.com 
P.O. Box 27744, San Diego, CA 92198-1744