A Letter For Mikaela

After E saw my post about the plaque , she wrote this wonderful letter to Mikaela.

Dear Mikaela:

I want to thank you for finishing the other side of the plaque I gave your Mom. It really needed to have your message on it.

You are one smart pony. Every day is specially made for each of us. Every day is meant to be a good day. Every day brings with it gifts we accept and lessons we learn. To be grateful for both the gifts and the lessons - even when the lessons are hard ones - makes it a good day, not just for us but for everyone our life touches.

One of those hard to learn lessons is the lesson of waiting. Sometimes if we have to wait while someone else gets what they want, it begins to feel not at all good. We begin to think, "Whoa, maybe it's not my day after all." That's when it helps to remember that, thanks to you, there are two sides of the plaque I gave your Mom. One side - the one that came with it - says "I can only please one person at a time and this isn't your time." The other, that you wrote, says, "This is your day. Have a good day."

Both are part of the same plaque now. They go together. But how is it possible to have a good day when it isn't our time to be pleased? It's possible because we know that the people, like your Mom and Dad, who love us really want to please us. So we can wait, even if it isn't easy, for our time to come. It will. And because we're sure that it will - very wise people have called that sureness, grace - we're free to go ahead and enjoy our good day - even with all the bumps in it.

Take good care. Love,

Elizabeth

We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends. What a good day it is!