YOUth

I get to watch you every day so unrestricted, uncluttered, unbridled. I am so jealous and lucky all at the same time. The way you run full speed diving into the swing on your belly fearless and free! The way your smile and eyes reveal the whole heart and glory of Him.

Please forgive me for letting some of God's wonder go. Please forgive yourself or one another if you ever feel the magic lessen. Know it is always there for the re-taking. The re-kindling. The re-awakening! Please tend toward completing God's will not competing or comparing. Please love one another as much as humanly possible as much of the time as humanly possible. This is what it's all about...

You enlarge the hearts you are surrounded with. You fill us with hope every time. You are laughter. You are tears. You are God's presence.

Daily you increase in wisdom and stature. You grow in love and service. Nothing escapes your microscopic gentle awareness. Your presence. You soften the world around thanking God.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

I love you my youthful angels!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you.