Thoughts from my father inlaw
Christy found these posts on facebook as she read through her dad’s Timeline this week. I shared them during his funeral yesterday. I think they should be shared here, too.
March 8, 2011:
LOVE YA
Suppose one morning you never wake up, do all your friends know you love them?
I was thinking…I could die today, tomorrow or next week, and I wondered if I had any wounds needing to be healed, friendships that needed rekindling or three words needing to be said. Let every one of your friends know you love them. Even if you think they don’t love you back, you would be amazed at what those three little words and a smile can do. And just in case God calls me home, I LOVE YA!!!
Live today to the fullest, because tomorrow is not promised
Love Ya!
November 23, 2012:
Thank you GOD for: Yesterday, GrandKids, A Wonerful meal, Friends, My Sister and Family showing up, talking to my Brother on the phone, being with my wife and Daughters and seeing the GrandKids having so much fun all day. GOD you have made me one LUCKY MAN!
February 13, 2013:
Happy Birthday to the most Wonderful wife in the world. Laura, you make me want to wake every morning just to say I Love You! I have been trough some very trying times in my life and for the past 30 years you have help me to battle the Pain and Depression I have faced. God was so kind to me when he allowed you to walk into my life.. Have a wonderful day, even though you have a broken hip.
Just a few weeks ago:
Dear Lord I ask that you give me the strength and wisdom to face this new Medical problem that I now face of Throyid Cancer. You delivered me from Cancer 37 years ago and I know you will help me again. The weak man within me want’s to say “I just can’t catch a break” , but actually my new Break is I get to see things so much more clearer as I did then. In these past 37 years , I was given a beautiful and unbelievable Daughter. Who has given me two vibrant GrandKids and a Adoptoted GrandChild that God sent us from Ethopia, she may have many Medical issues but to look into her eyes you see nothing but Joy and Determination. God gave me a good wife in my Ex-Wife the Mother of my Daughter, things may not have turned out the way we would have liked but I hold no regrets. As that door closed another opened that handed me the Person who has made me so Happy, the one who keeps me safe and that is Laura. She brought with her a Daughter, Tracie Hardegree Wilson who became my Daughter and she too gave me 2 GrandKids that I also adore to the fullest. I have Friends that no one man deserves but God gave them to me. I can honestly say there is no one I Hate or can’t stand, my Heart may also have Medical issues but it is full of Love for everyone I know or wished I knew from the U. S. to any other shore. I just wished we could get a long. God you are my Everything and I will accept your every action. Praise you!
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