Birthday Note

Dear Dad,

Thank You for Your surprises in my life.
Thank you the wonderful people You have surrounded me with - parents, relatives, fantastic brother and his wife, friends, church family, 8th graders and other WoF "rugrats", colleegues, neighbours, land-ladies I lived with.
Thank You for making this day special again.
Thank You for every unexpected greeting
Thank You for every HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU song I've heard.
Thank You for that contagious liveliness that flood WoF school - may it grow into spreading Your love with the same intensity:)
Thank You for every challenge and every victory,
Thank You for every wound and healing,
Thank You for the minutes of sadness and days of joy,
Thank You for the taers of pain, and hands and words of comfort.
Thank You for the sun, and the moon, and the stars
and for everything that You created which stands to this day.
Thank You for big dreams and small but big miracles.
Thank You for the opportunities You open,
and for the doors you shut.
Thank You for Your lessons and Your reproof
Thank You for every evening when I can talk to You wrapped up in my blanket.
Thank You for knowing my every request even before I speak it out.
Thank You for knowing my fears.
Thank You for not being mad about my mistakes and for giving opportunity to learn.
Thank You for letting have fun.
Thank You for letting me be Your child.
Thank You for Your patience towards me, a rebelious soul.
Thank You for accepting me the way I am.
Thank You for allowing me to discover who I am in You, how You see me.
Thank You for always being by my side, even when I don't want neither to see You nor to hear.
Thank You for not leaving me and for not stopping to talk to me.
Thank You for not being able to walk too far away from You (while being alive:))
Thank You for loving me with love I can hardly understand to the full...
Thank You that Your love never changes and that it remains strong no matter what.
Thank You for Your Son, without whom there would be no such thanksgiving and no renewed life.
Thank You for letting me to be born and to know You...

(here we go again... I burst into tears. Thanks for this as well:))