I AM SO PROUD OF THIS FATHER I GAVE MY CHILDREN !

Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid

{as we're inclined to do}

I do not need a handsome man

but let him be like You;

I do not need one big and strong

nor yet so very tall,

nor need he be some genius,

or wealthy, Lord, at all;

But let his head be high, dear God,

and let his eye be clear,

his shoulders straight, whate'er his state,

whate're his earthly sphere;

and let his face have character,

a ruggedness of soul,

and let his whole life show, dear God,

a singleness of goal;

then when he comes

{as he will come}

with quiet eyes aglow,

I'll understand that he's the man

I prayed for long ago.

                                RBG

 I was reading a book of poems that Leonard gave

 to me a few years before he got sick, written by

Ruth Bell Graham,

We read all the poems together and marked a few

things that we liked, and I realized that as this poem

              says, I knew he was the man God had picked for me long

before I knew the the man.

In the front of this book, Leonard wrote, which I just adore

finding things he wrote,

To Gwendolyn

 From Leonard

Dear Gwen,
My love has long been

yours - - - -

Since on that day

when we first met.

Forever yours,

Leonard

Happy Fathers Day, my Beloved