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See Your Children as Gifts 
On Father’s Day, my son Colby brought home a hand – made card from school. On the front of it was his small 
handprint and inside the card, above a little photograph of my child, were these words: 
Sometimes you get discouraged because I am so small And always leave my fingerprints on furniture 
and walls. But every day I’m growing – I’ll be grown up someday. And all those tiny handprints will surely 
fade away. 
So here’s a final handprint, just so you can recall, Exactly how my fingers looked, when I was very small. 
Love, Colby 
Children grow so very quickly. It seems like just yesterday that I stood in the delivery room waiting for the 
birth of my son, and then two years later, for the birth of my daughter, Bianca. It is easy to promise yourself you 
will spend more time with your kids “when things slow down at work” or “when I get that big promotion” or 
“next year when I get a little more time.” But if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. The 
weeks slip into months, the months slip into years and before you know it, that little child is now an adult with a 
family of her own. The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift of your time. And one of the 
greatest gifts you will ever give yourself is that of enjoying your kids and seeing them for what they truly are: 
the small miracles of life. 
In The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran makes the point far more eloquently than I ever could when he writes, “Your 
children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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