Today is my step dad's 60th Birthday! To say the least, I don't know where to begin! If you want to know what a Godly Man looks like, how he acts, how he speaks, how he handles himself, how he carries himself, how he deals with issues, how he handles his money, how hard he works, and so forth then all you have to do is look at him!... He has always been here for me!
Last night we celebrated his birthday with all of my siblings. With all of us, there are five kids, plus my mom and him, totaling to a whopping seven of us, as a family growing up! Now that most of them are married and have kids, there are 17 and counting! :)... Quite a BIG, immediate family!... I know! :) I can't remember life without him, my brothers, my sisters, my mom, and all of us being together! :)
So last night during the surprise celebration of his life, after we went to Hey Day with the family, played four rounds of laser tag, did the ropes course, played the token games, went back to the house for grilled out hamburgers and hotdogs, ate cake and ice cream, and he opened his presents, we went down memory lane. All of us kids shared one or two favorite memories of him! Some of mine were of him always coming to my basketball games, plays, awards assemblies, and the numerous other things I wanted to be a part of, dancing with my mom in the living room to Ronnie Milsap, playing games with all of us kids like basketball, four square, monopoly, kick ball, or wrestling on the floor, listening to all of his Promise Keepers praise and worship tapes with him in his white truck on milk crates, giving all of us 25 cents every Sunday from our chores to teach us to tithe, and always exuberating the fruits of the spirit!... The one, to this day, that still amazes me, is knowing where he is every morning without fail!... In the kitchen, reading his Bible!
My whole life he has taught me how a woman should be treated, how a dad should be, how a man should lead a family, and how to definitely be patient! I pray when I look back over my life, on my 60th birthday, that I have left a true legacy in the lives of others, like he has left in mine for the past 19!
Thank you Derryle for always being the most hard-working, diligent, and loving step dad in the whole world and for accepting me and my sister as your own and loving us unconditionally! :) I love you and
HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY! :)
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