To All My Sisters

Sisters aren’t just little girls who at one time or another
want to be just like you
They aren’t just little girls who annoy you
with countless why this and why that questions
If you’re lucky like I’ve been
God will bring you sisters you never thought you’d meet
at different points in your life


To all my sisters I would like to say
thank you for all you’ve taught me and
for all the love you’ve shown
I’m proud of the women you are
All my sisters have held and will continue to hold
their own special places in my heart
Just in case I haven’t told you lately
I love you all

One Moment

Life sometimes has a weird way of showing
you even when you’re lost and
can’t seem to rise above your pain
There is someone who has it worse
then you could’ve imagined for yourself
Yet some people have no way to change
what’s happening to them

In one moment the realization that
her mother has cancer but
God may still grant her a miracle
hit her like a ton of bricks
She is here to tell you now
if He calls her mother home
she will be heartbroken
Though it is through that pain and
everything her mother has been teaching her
throughout the years that
she will gain the strength to pick herself up and
dust herself off moving on

She knows her mother wouldn’t want her trapped
in grief for the rest of her life so
she’ll do what she can to make her proud
Maybe then the mother she loves
can look God in the eye, smile and say
I raised two great women
Don’t you think?

A documentary on the hardships in Africa
She saw young children caring for themselves and
their families because their caregivers were
sick or dying from illnesses related to HIV/AIDS
Her heart goes out to those children and she
will keep them in her prayers

For the first time she thanked God for showing
her she doesn’t really have it all that bad
and at least she can carry on and be proud of
the legacy her mother will leave behind one day