I'm thankful for my wife's understanding, love & patience with me. For the way my children see the goodness and love in me and how they don't see my faults (or love me in spite of them). And for the chance you guys have given me to get to know you beyond a few phrases a day about everything and nothing.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.