Dear Child

For my daughters..

Dear child,

Do you think I can stand apart dispassionately watching you suffer without also feeling your pain? No. In your suffering, I also suffer. And in your grief, I am sorely grieved. I am present with you during this trial. I stand beneath you as the solid ground when all else around you has become like shifting sand. I stretch out my love above you as a canopy, sheltering you from the rain. I stand behind you to catch you when you falter and fall, and I go before you to pave a path of light through the thick dark clouds of despair. But most of all, I stand beside you as a friend and a Father. And so I would ask you today to do this one thing for me, my child. See me here- beneath you and above you, before you and behind you, and always at your side. See with eyes of faith and know that I will never leave you nor forget you. Forever,

God