The Only Easy day was Yesterday.
I do not know why I am so blessed by God. I do not understand why I have people in my life who write things like you are about to read. This email came to me from the father of a young man in our community who has Downs Syndrome. The dad wrote me the other day to tell me his son, who loves me a lot, is praying for me every day and following my blog.
He agreed to let me share this letter but not their names. Their names are important to me and to God but the real message is hidden in these words you are about to read.
Take a deep breath and discover what tears, tenderness and the love of a father is all about.
I imagine this is how God feels about each one of us. Enjoy the words of a father.
“When he was old enough to understand and his language skills improved I would tell him, “The only easy day was yesterday.”
When he would hoist himself up the stairs to the front door of our home from the bus after a long day at school and say, “Dad, it was really hard today”, I would tell him, “The only easy day was yesterday.”
I used to look into his tender eyes filled with tears when the world had been too hard or people too cruel and tell him, “The only easy day was yesterday.”
Why?
Because I won’t live forever and someday I will need to leave him alone here. I won’t be here to rescue him from walks in the wind and rain from the bus stop or the dramas and traumas of life as I do now. I will be gone. So he has learned to do the hard thing and knows; the only easy day was yesterday.”
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Wow. Thank you for sharing this Rick. It may become my new slogan.
Wow, thanks for this, Rick! For us that have cancer it is so easy to fall into a pit and feel sorry for ourselves, but we never have to go far to realize that despite all this we are pretty lucky! Reminds me: I felt sorry for the man with no shoes until I met the man with no feet!
Wow. Thank you for sharing this Rick. It may become my new slogan.
Wow, thanks for this, Rick! For us that have cancer it is so easy to fall into a pit and feel sorry for ourselves, but we never have to go far to realize that despite all this we are pretty lucky! Reminds me: I felt sorry for the man with no shoes until I met the man with no feet!