Memory Album

While going through my pictures a year or so ago, I found pictures of me with each of my sons. The cool thing about these pictures is that they were both similiar poses, and both boys were 2 months old. I had found a poem in a magazine that captured the feeling of these pictures. I put them all together on this scrapbook page that is in my "Favorites Album."

The poem is as follows:

To My Sons:

I look to you with hope and pride,

I see your future brightly.

Your deep concerns and aspirations

I will not take lightly.

The future is a mystery

that everyone explores.

I'll share your possibilities,

Embrace your distant shores.

I'll answer you when questions stir,

encourage you, implore you.

But life's a challenge shaped by God

a gift I can't live for you.

So live it well; respect it fully;

play your spirit out,

Seek and then discover

all the best that life's about.

Remember that you're not alone-

My love is always there.

The challenge that defines your life

I am there to share.

You're on a voyage into time,

A trip to somewhere new.

You may not always see me there,

But I'll be there with you.

~Wilmer