My Precious Child

With a tear in my eye and an ache in my heart I often think back to when you were a child. It is in knowing those precious years will never happen again that I grasp these memories close to me and cherish them in my heart.

You were never too big for me to wrap my arms around; my hugs could always stop your tears. As you grew I followed my heart in raising you. I felt such love and thankfulness to God for the gift of you.

I felt that only a Mother could give a Mother’s love and I spent those years trying to prove that to myself. I would carry you to bed in my arms as you slept…and you never wondered how you got there.

As the years passed by you would look up into my eyes…. and right into my heart. You did not fully understand the love I held there for you then…. Oh, how proud I was of you!

But the years have passed by and today you are grown. I still look at you with love in my heart… and feel such pride in the person you have become… and want you to know that the eyes with a tear in them now and then, and the heart with an ache in it now and then are mine, as are the precious memories held so close to my heart.

No greater gift could I have ever received than the gift of being your Mother with the privilege of watching you grow into the wonderful person you are today!

                                                     I love you!

                                                   Millie P. Lorenz