{"id":78,"date":"2016-05-05T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberleybarker.net\/2016\/05\/a-grandmothers-love-letter-to-her-granddaughter\/"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:32:57","slug":"a-grandmothers-love-letter-to-her-granddaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberleybarker.net\/2016\/05\/a-grandmothers-love-letter-to-her-granddaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grandmother’s Love Letter to Her Granddaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dearest Shelby,<\/p>\n

      One day when Grandma was a young girl, God said, “I think I will give here a gift.”<\/p>\n

      And so he did.<\/p>\n

     It was a wonderful present.<\/p>\n

     The gift was your Daddy.<\/p>\n

     Time passed, and God said again, “I think I’ll add something to make the gift even better.”<\/p>\n

     So He added a beautiful ribbon and tied  it with a soft, pretty bow around the first present.<\/p>\n

     That pretty Bow was Your Mommy.<\/p>\n

     Now, the angels were watching God wrap this Present to me and said,<\/p>\n

    “God, we think it’s missing something!”<\/p>\n

     So, God thought for a moment, then ever so carefully,<\/p>\n

   He tied on the prettiest, brightest Star He could find and gave me You!<\/p>\n

Love, Punky
January 27th, 1993<\/p>\n

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