52 Week Blog Challenge – Week #4
2-5-18
Family – The Gifts They Share
This blog challenge is challenging in that I have to limit it to my immediate family. I have always considered extended family as…family. But for the purpose of the blog, “Meet My Family” I write about the nine names I whisper first in my daily prayers. And I share with you the gifts they share with me.
Pat – his gifts of gentle understanding and unending generosity comfort my restless heart. His faith is unquestionable and his love for family, even more so.
Adam – his joy in the simple things and his perseverance in sports and in life…inspire me to take the high road like he has done…again and again.
Timothy – shares his gifts of unshakeable faith and belief in God’s will. The power he finds in prayer empowers me to be more faith-filled…or at least try.
Joey – shares his determination to plow through adversity and come out a stronger person on the other side. Adversity has nothing on Joey. Never has. Never will. His parenting blesses his children and makes my heart smile.
Addie-Adele – she shares her beautiful smile so easily and shares her beautiful maternal soul so deeply. She made our family better the second she said “yes” to forever with Joey.
Suzy - She is everything to everyone in this family. She shares her wisdom, care and comfort even more readily than she shares her generous gifts. She, herself, is a gift to us all.
Sharon – Many years ago she taught me the importance of going above and beyond. Give all you can to others…and then some more. Her heart is forever broken now but her life lessons are forever instilled.
Brooklyn – My Bia – gives the gifts of discovery in imaginative play, in the pages of a book and the unfolding of a newly cut heart. To hold her hand while she falls asleep is one life’s best simple pleasures. She steals my heart each visit.
Nolan – My Jacquesy – he gives the gift of excitement in being one year old and jumping up and down at the sight of a ball, a dog, some music playing…or his papa walking through the door. His ever-present smile…makes my heart smile even more.