Wanted: Parents Who Rock Their Own Lives!

Dear Mom & Dad...

I don't want to be your Everything.

That's not why I'm here.


That's not what I need.


Love me, yes, 

and love me madly, 

but PLEASE!


I don't want to be your 

Only Sunshine.


I want to see the vista of You


stretching far beyond the circle 
of you and me.


I want to feel your attention spanning the horizon.


You ascending, striving, 

 & ever-growing...
    

You rocking your own life.


I want to see you creating new things 

and keeping your dreams.


I want to see 

how you get back up 
when you fall -- 


just like me.



Itty bitty though I am, 

I am a whole person.

And I am resting in a very BIG LOVE 

(even bigger than yours)

I am a whole person


and so are you...
even though you're big!


So BE big!  
Fascinate me!
Show me your glory!

Every day
you are
 telling me
a story...


The story of "What Adults Are."


Please don't make it boring.


My secret hope 

is that growing up


will be an outrageous adventure!

 Is it true?

I am following your gaze...

And here's the rub ~


If YOU 

think too much 

about me...




then I might 

think too much

about me...

& 
something tells me 

that's not why I'm here.

What if instead...

I get to watch you 

diving into others

& loving your friends deeply--


so I know how 

to be a good friend too?

What if I get to watch you 

serving a cause with 
all your heart...


so I learn

how to carry Big Love 
like you?

My Parents,


If I'm blessed enough 
to have two of you,


there's something else 
you should know.

Your love for each other

is a thousand times more nourishing


than a steady diet


of affection

for just 

me, me, me.

(even though that's pretty great too!)

What I really want to see is

just 
how 
BIG

a heart can be...

You teach me the best love

when you lift off and LIVE 
with wild abandon...

When you be what YOU came here to be.

And that ultimate gift
you really, really want for me?
(i.e. to be happy)...

You plant the seeds 

of my future joy

when you show me 
what true happiness looks like...

That's a good story.

So thank you Mom,

thank you Dad,

 for being so fully, beautifully

yourself.

The real you 

(still rocking your own life!)

& loving the real me...

that's 

what I always wanted

when I picked 

Wonderful You

to be my live-in storyteller!