Daughters Are a Gift From Heaven

by

Grace M Straley

I sit and watch the children play, they are so cute in their own way

Jazmine has a leaf in hand & Burgi can’t quite understand

Why she can’t have it, she wants one too! So this is what I see her do:

She takes a pretty barrette red, and this is what she softly said:

“Here Jazzy, this is just for you, it is so very pretty too

So give me that, I want it bad, I gave you this so don’t be mad.”

So-----Jazzy give the leaf away and Burgandi runs off to play.

They both are very happy now, it pleases me to see just how

They love each other, and they agree, they love their Grandma names “Straley”

Years ago, their Mother small, said this to me as I recall:

“I picked these flowers just for you, they’re beautiful and you are too”

She gave the dandelions to me, as pleased as any child could be

To show her Mother, how she’s loved, this love that I’m not deserving of.

For just that morning I scolded her, I told her not to pull the fur

Of our dear kitty, who ran in fear, I yelled real LOUD, “Don’t DO THAT DEAR!”

I sent her to her room so sad, because I thought she had been bad

Then later she went out to play, because it was a pretty day

And seeing flowers on the ground, she thought a ‘treasure’ she had found

She picked them with her hand so small, and brought them to me one and all.

A smile so BIG, her eyes lit up, as I put them into a cup----

A great big HUG, an I love you! She had forgotten through and through

That I was ever even mad, or that I had made her very sad.

Do Mother’s deserve such ‘innocence’? We ALL should have such common sense

We ALL should be so good and kind, like little children who are blind

To the mistakes we Mother’s do---they always still say, ‘I love you’

Oh, thank you God, I’m glad I know, I have a daughter who loves me so.

What MY MOTHER said is true, I will repeat them just for you.

“Daughters are a gift from Heaven”, and she should know ‘cause she had SEVEN!!