Ain't No Sunshine

This song has always been a precious song to me, but more so as I think of my Dimple. 

Within hours of meeting you I felt a dark night shrouding me as I entered into the deepest nights of my postpartum depression.  But you are like the sun on my face.  Warming me in your powerful and sweet rays.  Your chubby arms wrapping around my neck to your tiny hands that started to pat on my back as I carried you.  You have been that warm ray to me as you have stretched and grown.

You possess a smile that breaks my hardened heart and it is a rare person in my life that has ever disarmed me with a smile.  You have a special twinkle.  The Lord sure knew exactly what I needed.  But you are so much more than that.

There is a plan and a road and a purpose set out for your life before God laid the foundations of the world.  It is my prayer for you that your heart is tender and soft in the midst of this hard and cruel world.  That your heart is entrusted to the Maker of it.  The One who relentlessly pursues you in the quietness of a breeze, the glorious smells of the incoming season, in the roaring of disappointment, in the moments that take your breath away, in a fire, in the smile of a child. 

The One who came as a vulnerable babe to this earth, easily broken.  The One who saw all of our brokeness and couldn't rest until he made a way for us to be together again.  Perfectly, precisely timed. 

Just as I delight in your smile, humor and your frequent embraces, He has all the greater pleasure in you!

Praying for the man you will become.  That you might follow Him in grace and truth.

You have been a gift to me, to our family and I can't wait to see the blessing you will pour upon others as you allow Him to do amazing things in and then through you.