dear daddy,

thanks for taking me on a date last week…we haven’t done that in a too-long time!

i’m so glad we share a love of history…His story!

that movie about that great man left me thinking…and thinking

about ordinary people…doing extraordinary things…

about the red and yellow, black and white…

about how He created…everyone

and then today…on his birthday…the kids and i gathered ‘round and listened to dr. king speak…

about his dream for our nation…and his children

about his four precious little people…him wanting the same for them that every daddy wants for theirs…

him standing there proclaiming itwithin the shadow of that same great man

and i just cried…because it truly is so very heavy…just to think

that as he stood there “5 score years” later…when you were seventeen years old…this country was still such a horribly confused place…

that 2 score and 10 years later…and still

that these two men lived their lives…and lost themall for the sake of freedom!

i’m just so grateful for you…that you introduced me to the One who created…everything

everyone

so very grateful that He is creative…all of the colors of all of our skins displaying that!

so exceedingly grateful that He lived His life…and laid it downall for the sake of our freedom!

what an awesome responsibility you had…what an awesome responsibility we have

to introduce our littles to Him…

to introduce them to so many, many ordinary people…throughout all of time…all of His story…who did unbelievably extraordinary things…

what an awesome responsibilityto spur them on to do the same

very sincerely,
me

– daddy reading to we three (circa 1975)

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