Mom’s 92nd Birthday — a Reason for Love and Gratitude

Tomorrow will be my sweet mother-in-law’s 92nd birthday.

It’s such a good time to express my love and gratitude for her and the precious gift of her son to me. Her life represents my life with the most precious, loving, tender and giving man I ever knew. Was he a perfect man? No. But he was perfect for me. I thank her for the prayers for us right from the very beginning when I was 12 and he was 13 — when we were just kids and didn’t know about life and responsibilities and what true love was all about. I thank her (and my mom) for praying us together.

I will always love the story of her turning her little ceramic Holland boy and girl away from each other when we had an argument, and when she put them back together again when we made up. That story tells a lot about her encouragement, her prayers and her support of us for so many years. Our love for each other stood the test of time, the test of tough times and the good, the test of sickness and in health, the test of raising kids, the test of trusting God through every challenge. I thank her for instilling such strong faith in him, for the man of God he was, for the sense of humor, and, even for those “perfection” qualities that made him so detailed, always expecting excellence from all of us. I thank her for instilling in him his musical gifts that gave so many people such encouragement and joy. I thank her for everything about this precious man that filled my life, and so many others, with love and joy.

Mom, on this eve of your 92nd birthday Birthday, I celebrate you and thank you for my precious Honey, that you and God blessed me with for over 50 years!!
I love you so much……Donna