Saturday, September 27, 2025

Dear God,

Seventy-nine years ago you gave me to my parents, their firstborn.  They were so happy to have a child after the war.  All of us were called baby boomers.  We were new life after so much death.  

Thank you for the life you have given me.  I am certain I have disappointed you many times.  I pray sometimes I brought you joy.  No one has held me like you.  No one has loved me like you.  No one has given to me like you.  No wonder I feel closer to you than anyone in my life.  You and I started together even before my parents came together to conceive me.  You will be with me at the end as we begin a life in eternity.

So thank you, dear God, for every gift and blessing.  Thank you for every insight, challenge, conviction, question and gesture of love.  Thank you for teaching me the lessons of life.  Thank you for reminding me I am more than me because you are part of me, the better part to be sure.

Loving God,

thank you

for giving me

many people

who have

walked this journey

with me.

Thank you

for family,

friends, co-workers,

neighbors, teachers,

and even strangers

who reached into

my life.

As I step

into the

last years 

of my life,

may I be

a better daughter,

mother, friend,

teacher, leader

and stranger.

May I

glorify you

for all

you have done

for me.

Yours, Andrea