Day 3 - To Your Parent

With grace, style, and a flare all your own
you run things...
departments and households;
marathons and errands.

Driven by a desire to see us succeed
you stressed and stretched yourself
beyond human boundaries
into the world of sacrifice.

Through heartache and sleepless nights
arguments and seemingly endless prayers
you raised two children who know
the strength of a God-fearing mother.

And as I sit and watch you now
I see a woman who is flourishing in her prime
a woman who loves unapologetically
and a woman who fights for what is right.

Here and now I vow to make you proud
to be the person that you know I can be
to do the things that you know that I can accomplish
and to soar to the heights that you know God has for me.

So when my daughter or granddaughter asks
what my mother was like i'll tell them that
if I could be even half the woman
that you are would be good enough for me.


To the greatest inspiration I could ever hope to have in my life.