Maya

I love the sunshine in your hair
The bluebirds in your eyes
I love your scarlet ribboned lips
I even love your size
Short, yet independent
Spunky as can be
It’s amazing to think such a precious package
Has been entrusted to me.
I adore you, think you’re amazing
I love you through and through.
No other child could rival the
Specialness of you.
But this I pray from day to day
(Or as often as I think)
That you would grow to love and know
The God I love and seek.
I pray that I would model well
The life we all should lead-
A life of faithfulness and love,
Pure devotion to the King.
He created all that I love about you
And afterward he smiled
Knowing that the gift he gave to us
Would be returned in a while.
That’s right, my Precious daughter
You are in safe hands
Although it is my hand you see
It is God’s hand that you hold
For He has entrusted you to me
And I have purposed to be
An ambassador of the highest integrity.
May God enable me to cut a clear path
For those tiny feet which may one day follow . . .