Today is the day we set aside each year to be thankful, to be mindful of our gratitude…

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Today I am grateful for a very beautiful sixteen year old girl, dressed in black, with purple hair… She walks with an air of confidence, she pretends that she does not care what others think, and she holds a wall between you and her to keep from being hurt; all the time knowing she will be disappointed… She is strong in her opinions, in her likes and dislikes, though like many she falters, only to stand again; a little taller, and a little surer of herself… She creates her own beauty, with what she finds in this world… She has shown me many times that what I could not imagine could become beautiful… She has been a gift to me, every day that I have known her… She walked into my life as a girl, and I watched her become a woman… A very beautiful woman, I have seen her graduate from High school, and College, fall in love with an amazing man that loves her very much… I would love to tell you I had the chance to see her become a wife, though I was not that lucky… I can tell you I have seen her since her marriage, though only from a distance… She was with her friends and her husband, and they were in the bookstore… I got this pull to go downtown to this store, so I went; I didn’t need a book or even have a book in mind… shortly after arriving, I turned to see her, I was about to go up to her and I was told not to, not right at that moment… In that moment I was to enjoy the beauty of the woman before me, and to let her be with her friends… She was about eight months pregnant at the time, and I had just said to someone how I wished I could see her… This was my wish come true… Today she is full term and will be becoming a mother any moment, she may already be… I wish for her ease in birth, joy in each moment, and the discovery of how quickly your heart can expand as you are handed the gift of a child… She will be a great mother… Every day I surround her in love and light, that she know that even though I am not welcome in her world, she is ever welcome in mine… My true deep gratitude for the gift you are to me Beautiful one, Daughter of my heart…