Your Birth (Happy Birthday Patty)
I called for you before I knew your name. I asked the Lord for someone I could claim. Not knowing what great love would be found. Before your little heartbeat had a sound, I did not know your eyes, your laugh, your face. I only knew I longed to make you space, I hoped your little fingers would hold mine tight. And prayed you’d love me back with all your might. I wondered who would answer when I prayed. What kind of love would find the life I made? What precious little soul would come to me, What kind of child my child would be. And then, somehow, through Heaven’s quiet hand, As if the Lord had drawn a secret plan, You found your way, where I waited there, And placed a piece of Heaven in my care. I thought that I had called you from the sky, That motherhood, in my eyes, was mine. But then I looked into your wondering gaze, And knew that you had chosen me that day. You chose my arms before you knew their shape. You chose a heart that sometimes would escape. You chose my voice befor...