Julie

Dear Julie,

It is with pleasure that I give this tribute to you because it is so easy to be sincere about your many beautiful attributes. You see, you were loved greatly before you even came into this world. We had longed so, for another baby in our home. We had Jimmy, eight years old and Kathleen six and one half. Our home was baby hungry -- waiting for you to appear and fill it's walls with happiness. And then you came -- filling our lives with so many joys.

One day, so many years later, I was watching you with your own little children, and my thoughts returned to the day you came into our hearts and I wrote these lines about you:


As I watch you with your little ones, your sweet and tender ways
My thoughts go back to by gone years and through your baby days

Have I told you how we pled with God and asked in constant prayer
If He could look down on our home and send a baby there?

And so He placed you in our arms, how beautiful that day
The earth was full of flowers and sun, that lovely day in May

And ever since you came here our hearts have overflown
With gratitude for all these joys we may have never known

And I am sure that He looks down and smiles from up above
For ever since He placed you here, you've spread about His love!


Yes, you have always had a happy spirit. You light up our day. When our family gets together and you are missing, there is a vacant spot that is heavily felt. Your good sense of humor, your enthusiasm, your love for life always lifts those who are in your midst.

ALL people mean so much to you. You love them for what they are -- your eyes seem to see everything good. You seem to have an understanding heart for you are that person that people like to share their inner feelings with. They know you listen and you care.

You have a very creative talent -- always planning to add a touch of beauty here and there. Your head is full of ideas ready to break forth into uniqueness and loveliness.

Yet with all of these charming attributes I believe the one that touches me most is the humility you possess. The Lord said, "Be thou humble, and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand." "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

There are so many good things I could continue to say about you, but may I close by saying, "Julie, to know you - is to love you."