Thank you.

thank you

for the gift of life

for breath

and the beating of our hearts.

thank you

for the highs and lows,

the joys and the sadnesses.

thank you

for the beauty that surrounds us,

and our ability to appreciate it all.

I am amazed by life,

the journey that is within

and without

it's freedoms,

the debts we carry

dissolved in forgiveness’s cry.

each moment a lesson in gratitude,

each sadness a promise of new beginnings,

even death in all it's grief and finality

leads us to consider eternity,

a hope that is beyond comprehension

yet caught up in grace's promise

that although our wisdom is far too small

love has come

an expectation

that rises out of our own mortality.

I do not presume to begin

to understand,

I am simply overwhelmed

that I am understood,

and we are all homeward bound.