MyParents

A Tribute To My Parents

An awsome thanks to my parents for preparing a way for their children. For believing with all their hearts that "we are so much more than what we are". My parents are exuberant, thoughtful, funny, and wise individuals. Who have concern for human petential that is profound and genuine. I have learned many things from my mom and dad. Things such as change, growth, and beauty. As I think back to my early years growing up I remember my dad as a man that little would escape his quick eye, awsome intellect, and generouse heart. Many times through my childhood my dad would patiently listen to me, fix me with his beadly eye, by saying, "littlebitjean, you must stop doing all the things you know you can do so well and try something new". Did I listen to my Dad? Sometimes, and it has been a mission for me through our friendship to listen carfully, with my mind and with my heart. My parents enjoy life, wheather it be an evening of solitude at home or at their summer cabin on the lake front. My parents are very private individuals, but this privacy seems not so much an escape, a going away from, as a going towards. My parents are very much human, who stumble and bumbles about like the rest of us, who suffer through the complexities of bureaucratic twentieth century life like the rest of us, who has moments of private anguish like the rest of us. Unlike the rest of us, they seem to glory in their own humanity and weaknesses and imperfections and comedy that being human implies. Most important my parents, my mom and dad took the time to instruct me, and their other children in the word of God.

So to my parents,
I thank you for being exactly what God had in mind when He created parents.
I love you both so very much!

Beth

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