Proud and Happy

You would likely know how much we love you

but I would not have said that to you

as many times as I would have liked;

I think you would not be comfortable with such a show.

But I don’t think you quite know

how very proud I am of you

and how our lives, each and all,

would be bereft without your presence.

It is not your wealth

not your words

nor your actions

that make you the star that shines in our lives.

It is because of your wealth, your words, your actions,

that reveal the rhythms of your heart.

And it is in that mysterious, remarkable, generous rhythms

that touch our lives and hearts,

that bring to us, over and over,

the happy joy of calm lessons and seemly gratitude.

God must have thought we surely needed a guide and an angel

for he sent you to fill our lives

with so much more than we had a right to, or deserved.

I am so very Proud

and Happy

to call you Brother.