Father’s day Card

when You splash in pool—patient fun—teaching me to tread to dive to swim.

when You push me on swing on playground.

when You take training wheels off my bike and take me to that parking lot down the street and teach me to ride, the sunset singing over us like Your big laugh.

when i put my feet on Your feet and we walk across the kitchen floor like that…giggle look up, You really love me Your eyes say.

I love being Your kid.

it’s so fun!

You are the Best Dad Ever—literally!

we got history, we got inside jokes, dreams, the most amazing relationship, all because You are the best Dad of all time. & even if i mess up stay out too late or go to a party, it’s a comma with You—not period—Your mercy and love sustaining, restoring, Your love teaching me to stay, such ridiculous patience.

I love sitting on Your lap. You smell soo good. then You ask — may I have this dance? and next thing I know we’re shuffling, waltzing, cha cha-ing! You’re a great dancer. thanks for choosing me to be Your partner.

You give me everything—it’s You.

thank You for always packing the best lunches. never being late to pick me up, and being my biggest fan at every softball game and dance recital—front seat. the way You look at me makes me feel like I can do Anything!

Your vote of confidence is the only voice I need.

I can’t wait for tomorrow, for forever, an eternity spent daddy-daughter dating, shoe shopping and getting ice cream!! but at the same time i’m so lost in Now—here—together, that there is nothing else but Your chest.

I tried to buy You a present for Father’s day, but then i realized You just want me.

never change! Oh wait, You can’t change! I love that about You!

thank You for Your steady, unwavering, constant present love in my life.

I run into Your arms, HUG!!

HAPPY Fathers day, God!!!

pillow talk

You’re not like the others. You’re not like the sand, shifting and eroding, ebbing and flowing as tide comes and leaves. or star—born, sparkle, implode. breath, comes, goes. there’s grace laced throughout Your royal robes and burning eyes, leaving no trace of former scars or lies. You love to forgive, You love to forget—You don’t count my mistakes, or look at my forsaken state of mind. but call me beloved, found, Yours… all along. this false reality—me me me—ice melting beneath, nowhere to go but sink, is taken in a blink. when You look at me.

and taken, I am. Your gaze undoing every corner and crevice of things I thought I knew. unraveled, a puddle of yarn and knelt knees. I can barely stand that You would look at me. this love, so intense. I feel like rowing away. yet I’m drawn ever sweetly, stayed. can’t make sense of this, don’t even wanna. i’m this beckoning fits my longing like a gloved hand. here we are, together. I never knew I missed You till we met. this Sun never stops shining. this Guide never stops giving. this God never stops pursuing. i can’t get away from You, why, why would i want to? nowhere else to go. even if I leave, You love.

You don’t leave. day 693, still. the same. unchanged. unmoved. like gazing at fire licking air on crisp night, I stare, at You. You don’t get old and You’re never boring. like Christmas morning or my wedding day, how can this elation stay? yet You elaborate, showing me more, then more, somehow more love. right here, so present. how do You be this way? so unlike all the other lovers, who left, never stayed. who left me hungry, wanting. chip bags full of empty, air. staring into vacant stands. reaching for green paper to buy another new, same disappointment. an island of misery. why did no one ever tell me I could be free, for free? given everything—You.

*this is an excerpt from my book, Microwave the Moon. i hope it blesses you! Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/040vdod