Blessings

Yesterday was Thanksgiving 2011.  It was a wonderful day.  This year has been full of surprises, and some disappointments as well.  But yesterday was all about the good that we have shared, all the many blessings we have received this year and the many years before we honored today.  One of the sweetest blessings I received this year was on Thanksgiving Day itself.  I was able to talk to my daughter in Tennessee for a bit, it was the greatest thing.  I have not seen her in 18 years, she is my first born and I lost her when she was just a couple of years old, and I never saw her again until she was 18.  Then it took another 18 years for me to find her again.  It's a story of lost and found and lost and found again.  She sounded just like me, and everyone says she looks like me, but I think she looks like her dad too.  I have two grand children I have yet to meet and I can't wait to get to meet them.  They are coming down for Christmas, what a wonderful day that will be.  She was born when I was really young, sixteen to be exact, or to be more exact four days before my seventeenth birthday.  We could have grown up together but the fates didn't allow it, choices were made, hard choices and they forever changed our lives.  She is an adult now, and she can make her own choices, so we will see how it all turns out.  A mother never forgets a child, at least this one didn't, no matter the circumstances, the memory of that child will haunt a mother till her death.  But because I know I have a loving Father in heaven, I don't have to wonder anymore, he has made a way for us to be together again, and I am so happy.  That's one blessing I will cherish forever!