A person learns so much in a lifetime which I think we all take for granted. The friends
we meet, the unexpected smile on a strangers face, the miraculous stories of human survival, the little and sometimes big
ways that God works in our lives, and most of all the ones we love.
Do you remember the first time your baby took a breath?
Do you remember the first unrequested hug from your child?
Can you recall the first time your child could say, I love you?
Can you recall the first time you felt their pain?
Was it so long ago that they went to school for the first day?
Was it so long ago that they could read by themselves?
Remember when your ideas were no longer theirs?
Remember when you accepted them in spite of that?
Were you ever anxious for them to finally grow up?
Were you ever amazed that it came so quickly?
What were your dreams for your child?
What were your hopes, what were your fears?
Remember when reason was not an option?
Remember when they knew more than you?
Do you recall the misunderstanding?
Do you recall the outright rebelling?
Were you surprised when you stood your ground?
Were you surprised when they also stood theirs.
Did they learn threw what you talked?
Did they learn threw what you walked?
Remember the nights of pacing the floor?
Remember the days of slaming doors?
What could you do, what could you say?
What could you claim to be the cause?
How could this be that baby of yours?
How could your dreams have come to this?
Would a day of peace be yours?
Would a miracle ever come?
Remember how time slipped slowly by?
Remember how disputes became slowly few?
Recall the day when they said thanks?
Recall the moment that it was worth it all?
When all seems lost and they never heard,
Just wait, you will see, how surprised you will be.
When all your values, hopes and dreams
Can all be seen in your grandchild's dreams.
