We are so happy to have welcomed a great-granddaughter into our life…
to see how beautiful she is…how innocent…how sweet!
while at the same we’re a little sad…at all the people she will never meet.
All those combined family members who she will never know
Who were not here to experience her birth…
Who won’t be here to watch her grow.
Although their being here in person is what we’d all prefer…
We also know the best parts of them…will find their way…to her.
Because it is the nature of families…that those of us who are here…
who will watch her grow up…watch her soar…
have already inherited the best parts
from all those who have come before.
And it stands to reason if we all possess the best parts of who they were…
when it comes the newest member of our family…we will pass them down to her.
Her eyes, her hair, her smile…her personality
we know from whence they’ve come….
now merged into the person she is…as well as the person she will become.
And if she ever decides to have a child…and add a new member to our family
when and if that time arrives…how lucky her child will be.
Because she will take the best parts she inherited…
add them to the best parts of those who have come and gone
and as mom’s and dad’s have done throughout eternity…
to her own child…will pass them on.
So with every quiet sorrow we feel…wishing those who are gone
could be here to know her……
and so she could know the person each one of them was…
Comes a quiet joy in knowing…
in a way…they already do…
and she already does.
