I woke early this morning and felt impressed to write a note to my Dad. When I was a little girl, as Christmas time approached, I remember finding my Dad, when he wasn't off to a job site, in his office, writing. We wrote Christmas letters to us, his kids. I love those letters.
This week my parents have both been here helping us remodel the new offices. Working from dawn past dusk, we are nearly done with demolition. Yea! We have completely filled two of those huge dumpsters in just three days. We started Thursday morning, and were grateful the dumpster company was open on New Year's Eve day so they could bring us another one! (Tender mercy!) They brought a new one thankfully, as that first one was over the top, in fact, we took a break and had lunch waiting for them to show, concerned that we had filled the dumpster so full they would reject it if we filled it any fuller! Yea, they showed up with a new one, and by Saturday afternoon, we had to stack the 2x4's in piles waiting for the new delivery.
My Dad is such a hero in my eyes! He is always serving, giving, doing! He is amazing! I want to post my letter to him here, my little slice of appreciation to my hero, My Dad!
My Dear Dad, what a blessing it is to be YOUR daughter....
I am so grateful you made it home safely!
I am humbled by the veil of understanding. I learn so slowly, struggling within to understand, desiring to see and feel and know, but coming so slowly to recognize the abundance, the sacrifice of, the expense of, the depth of the blessings of God given to me so abundantly. As a girl I remember you telling me that someday I would understand. I hope and pray that someday I will have the abilities and talents you have! I am learning of the love you give so freely, of the limitless requirements of sacrifice required for the project of parenting you have always made to look so simple. Thank you Dad! Like that song, "And she thought that she knew what Love was...." (The Last Touch by Carol Lynn Pearson, quoted here: http://www.weber1960.com/class_custom3.cfm) I realize as I write this early morning that I am currently compelled to be humble, and I regret that I have to be compelled to learn, to see, to understand. I regret that I constantly fail to even be aware, let along comprehend or understand the depth of the gift you have given so freely to me. Thank you Dad! Thank you. As I girl I believed, and see more each day, that you are so one with my other Father. It helps me to understand the Godhead, that the Father and Son are one. I am certain that you and my Father in Heaven are as one. Your ways are so similar to His ways. I believed as a girl that when you were upset with me that my Heavenly Father would have also been upset. Thank you for being that kind of Father for me! I am a blessed little girl to have you for my Dad!!!!
Thank you so much for working so hard for me! Thank you for laboring physically to accomplish...!!!!! Thank you for knowing how to see the potential of the building (and more the potential of my children, of our life!), and helping Brad and I to have the courage to move forward!!! Thank you for loving my little ones! Thank you for working beside us to help us see the way to accomplish the difficult task at hand... from drawing the plans and developing the possibilities to scraping glue-on-carpet off the floors, demoing walls, turning off electrical outlets and switches, arranging for the long list of subs and resources, making the phone calls, coordinating every detail with patience and vision! I am so grateful for your talents, love, example, dedication, compassion...! I am thankful and humbled at your physical strength. I am thankful for your spiritual foundation of faith, determination, courage, and devotion to what is right and good, devotion to God! Thank you Dad! I am thankful you are home safe, and pray for your body, your back, your arms and shoulders to recover quickly and to not ache or hinder you. I am so thankful to be your daughter! Thank you Dad!
My family and I are all grateful for a day to recover (this Sunday), to review the accomplishments of the past few difficult, fast, hard days. To recover physically from the twists, fatigue, physical strain of working hard beside you. Thank you for never quitting! Thank you for being constantly engaged in the next gift of.... I can't always even see what the next step is before you have it almost done! I am sure today you will be up and gone, about the business of our Heavenly Father as you are every day... today attending to the needs of those in your ward in ways others around you can not even see!
I am so grateful to have watched you. I am thankful to have observed first hand how you constantly move forward... I know you get out of bed the next morning, and with faith and determination you move ahead to conquer the next mountain! Before the sun even rises, I know you will be conquering...moved on, determined to handle the next tasks at hand! You are so amazing! I remember as a little girl wondering how you had the energy to keep moving! I remember waking early in the morning to find you already up and about, accomplishing amazing feats! Whatever the project....planting a garden, building a building, digging a root cellar, landscaping our backyard, pouring concrete, or serving the Lord in the myriad of ways I have see you serve others.... realizing more each day that you were serving and giving more than even living under your very roof could see or were aware of! You are amazing! Thank you! Thank you for blessing my life! I will strive today to follow in your footsteps. I am thankful for opportunities to be "roped in" to follow in your footsteps, and I realize the burden it is to you to be tied to my same rope, to have me pulling on that rope behind you, as I struggle to keep up the pace! Thank you Dad for climbing mountains with me! Thank you for allowing me to rope in with you! Thank you!
These words can never express my gratitude. I recognize the huge number of ropes you seem to effortlessly harness in. Your letters to me from years past...
I will scan a few of them, and attach them here because I desire my children to find them, to see your counsel and love! Thank you Dad!
This week my parents have both been here helping us remodel the new offices. Working from dawn past dusk, we are nearly done with demolition. Yea! We have completely filled two of those huge dumpsters in just three days. We started Thursday morning, and were grateful the dumpster company was open on New Year's Eve day so they could bring us another one! (Tender mercy!) They brought a new one thankfully, as that first one was over the top, in fact, we took a break and had lunch waiting for them to show, concerned that we had filled the dumpster so full they would reject it if we filled it any fuller! Yea, they showed up with a new one, and by Saturday afternoon, we had to stack the 2x4's in piles waiting for the new delivery.
My Dad is such a hero in my eyes! He is always serving, giving, doing! He is amazing! I want to post my letter to him here, my little slice of appreciation to my hero, My Dad!
My Dear Dad, what a blessing it is to be YOUR daughter....
I am so grateful you made it home safely!
I am humbled by the veil of understanding. I learn so slowly, struggling within to understand, desiring to see and feel and know, but coming so slowly to recognize the abundance, the sacrifice of, the expense of, the depth of the blessings of God given to me so abundantly. As a girl I remember you telling me that someday I would understand. I hope and pray that someday I will have the abilities and talents you have! I am learning of the love you give so freely, of the limitless requirements of sacrifice required for the project of parenting you have always made to look so simple. Thank you Dad! Like that song, "And she thought that she knew what Love was...." (The Last Touch by Carol Lynn Pearson, quoted here: http://www.weber1960.com/class_custom3.cfm) I realize as I write this early morning that I am currently compelled to be humble, and I regret that I have to be compelled to learn, to see, to understand. I regret that I constantly fail to even be aware, let along comprehend or understand the depth of the gift you have given so freely to me. Thank you Dad! Thank you. As I girl I believed, and see more each day, that you are so one with my other Father. It helps me to understand the Godhead, that the Father and Son are one. I am certain that you and my Father in Heaven are as one. Your ways are so similar to His ways. I believed as a girl that when you were upset with me that my Heavenly Father would have also been upset. Thank you for being that kind of Father for me! I am a blessed little girl to have you for my Dad!!!!
Thank you so much for working so hard for me! Thank you for laboring physically to accomplish...!!!!! Thank you for knowing how to see the potential of the building (and more the potential of my children, of our life!), and helping Brad and I to have the courage to move forward!!! Thank you for loving my little ones! Thank you for working beside us to help us see the way to accomplish the difficult task at hand... from drawing the plans and developing the possibilities to scraping glue-on-carpet off the floors, demoing walls, turning off electrical outlets and switches, arranging for the long list of subs and resources, making the phone calls, coordinating every detail with patience and vision! I am so grateful for your talents, love, example, dedication, compassion...! I am thankful and humbled at your physical strength. I am thankful for your spiritual foundation of faith, determination, courage, and devotion to what is right and good, devotion to God! Thank you Dad! I am thankful you are home safe, and pray for your body, your back, your arms and shoulders to recover quickly and to not ache or hinder you. I am so thankful to be your daughter! Thank you Dad!
My family and I are all grateful for a day to recover (this Sunday), to review the accomplishments of the past few difficult, fast, hard days. To recover physically from the twists, fatigue, physical strain of working hard beside you. Thank you for never quitting! Thank you for being constantly engaged in the next gift of.... I can't always even see what the next step is before you have it almost done! I am sure today you will be up and gone, about the business of our Heavenly Father as you are every day... today attending to the needs of those in your ward in ways others around you can not even see!
I am so grateful to have watched you. I am thankful to have observed first hand how you constantly move forward... I know you get out of bed the next morning, and with faith and determination you move ahead to conquer the next mountain! Before the sun even rises, I know you will be conquering...moved on, determined to handle the next tasks at hand! You are so amazing! I remember as a little girl wondering how you had the energy to keep moving! I remember waking early in the morning to find you already up and about, accomplishing amazing feats! Whatever the project....planting a garden, building a building, digging a root cellar, landscaping our backyard, pouring concrete, or serving the Lord in the myriad of ways I have see you serve others.... realizing more each day that you were serving and giving more than even living under your very roof could see or were aware of! You are amazing! Thank you! Thank you for blessing my life! I will strive today to follow in your footsteps. I am thankful for opportunities to be "roped in" to follow in your footsteps, and I realize the burden it is to you to be tied to my same rope, to have me pulling on that rope behind you, as I struggle to keep up the pace! Thank you Dad for climbing mountains with me! Thank you for allowing me to rope in with you! Thank you!
These words can never express my gratitude. I recognize the huge number of ropes you seem to effortlessly harness in. Your letters to me from years past...
I will scan a few of them, and attach them here because I desire my children to find them, to see your counsel and love! Thank you Dad!