Oh, Great and Wonderful Father

I have watched you through the years - loving the girls and, in the process, teaching them how to love. You do it so well!

You are patient and kind, you listen with your whole heart. You hear them. You laugh with them and they laugh with you. They make you laugh, you make them laugh! It makes my heart smile. You are gentle and offer support, stern when necessary and not judgmental. You have important and, sometimes nerdy,  conversations about all manner of things - "what if...?" and "what do you think...?" and "what do you know...?"; and, all the while, you are teaching them that you are interested, teaching them to be curious, teaching them to have a love for life and a love for the big and small things that fill their lives. You are trust for them and a safe place to love. The girls are grown adults now with grown children of their own. And, you continue to love them as only their Great and Wonderful Father can do. The way you will always love them - completely and unconditionally. 

You make it look so easy - because, for you it is! It's what you do. It's who you are. You know no other way. 

You have learned the art of loving so well. God poured into your heart this wellspring that continues to overflow and grow bigger the more you pour out its goodness.  God's sweet love dwells in you and it is exemplified through your life. 

And, I am so very grateful for you and the way you love!