A PERSON OF LETTERS

Hi mom! Hi Dad! I’m your baby…you just brought me into the world… But as I learn to walk and talk and grow…. There is something that concerns me…something I’d like you to know. I know you’re pretty busy falling in love with me probably looking to each other and our family and friends for support and since I’m already getting tired…I’ll try to keep this short. I’m too young to know my alphabet…having just been introduced to the world and you In fact the only letters I know right now are L G T B and Q. I think I also heard something about a plus sign…but since I haven’t even had my first bath I think it’s safe to assume…I know nothing about math. But for these last nine months I’ve been silently floating in the womb… your growing source of pride. and during this time I’ve been listening…to what’s been going on outside. I’ve heard and felt the fear and anger about those letters. Heard and felt how they have hardened some people’s hearts. I’ve heard the cries, the screams, the anger as they’ve torn some families apart. Today you see me as your baby boy or girl….and I imagine love is all you see but we’re all too young to know yet…if they’ll be a letter attached to me. There’s a good chance that there won’t be…but if there is…I hope you find a way to love me as much from that moment on…as I assume you love me today. I hope whatever letter I am…if it happens to be L G T B or Q It won’t impact the love you have for me…and as a consequence the love I have for you. I hope the only letters that are important to you…for I know they will be important to me The only letters we should care about…are L K C A and G. I can’t control who I am…the person I was born to be… but I can control if I am Loving, Kind, Caring Accepting and show others generosity. If we all concentrate on these letters…and over those other letters quit making such a fuss… If we all could be proud of who we are…now wouldn’t that be a plus. I hope who I am doesn’t stop you from loving me… because here’s the last thing I want you to know whatever letter I grow up to be…the L that stands for your love is one thing I will never outgrow.