A sweet email message from my Dad–Birthday gifts just don’t get any sweeter than this.

Dear Lori,
 

I have not forgotten the feelings of my heart when I first saw you and cuddled you in my arms– and walked you around University Village on a cold fall day– and  watched you walk from the car up the sidewalk to your first day of school— and watched as you drove with the DMB officer out of the parking lot— nor have I forgotten your faithfulness through those difficult high school and college years; your heartaches have been my heartaches; your successes my successes. 

    
I am so very proud of you, your accomplishments, your steady course towards a fulness of the Father’s blessings in company with Bryan and your children. Be assured, all the trials and tribulations, the joys and sorrows through which you have passed or may be called upon to pass are but a preparation for the glories of a Celestial life, for it is written, “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath preared for them that love him.”

 
Hold on to that great hope; keep that ideal always in your heart. 
 
And so to you, my firstborn in the wilderness, I send all my love on your 38th birthday.
 
Dad