Abigail

You save me in a million ways every day.

When I need to be so much more than I am, you save me.

With your dimpled smile and your sweet milk-breath.

With those trusting blue eyes as deep and wide as God’s great ocean,

You save me.

to be more loving

to be more kind

to be more patient

“God, make me this!” I cry.

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With your warm weight in my arms

Your bitty bit of humanity means more to me than a thousand, a million, no, billions of other souls.

And you, like no other, have the power to change me,

To remind me to reach

to search

to beg and pray

for the strength to rise to your occasion.

To lift the banner of motherhood high

And carry it strong.

With your singing hope, you save me.

By Caila Murphy 7/14/10

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