Six Gifts

  Six gifts. Six gifts given to every baby girl when she breaths her first breath of earth air. Passion, Innocence, Love, Strength, Trust, and Faith. Every breath she takes from that moment on is Life's attempt to tear those gifts out of her fingers.

   Her Passion is what makes people take a second look. it's that flip of her hair, the look in her eye. It's the spring in her step as she runs after what she wants. It's the kiss that makes boys head spin. It's what keeps her chin up when nothing goes the way she planned.

 Innocence serves her well until an illusion makes her give some away. It's the smile in her eye when someone special walks by. It's the way she holds on to fancy and fiction. the way she still believe in Peter Pan and pixy dust.


   Love. Maybe the gift that lasts after time, age, and disappointment have given her life a jaded tone. Love remains. Her love for God. Her love for others. A special reserve for her special someday-someone.

   Strength makes her stand when she wants to fall. Strength is what allows the tears to be shed, but not to break her. Strength is her anger when the weak are wronged. When she see's people she loves throw away potential.
 
Trust is the most temporary of all the gifts. It's delicate, made of thin tissue paper. easily given and received at first, but after time wears away the shine, it becomes carefully guarded. and only shown to others on the rarest of occasions.  to be trusted with a piece of this gift is the most treasured of all.

Faith. what holds it all together when there is no logic or reasoning to fall back on. It's what keeps her steps even, and safe when rocks, roots, and temptation lay in her path. It's the star in the sky she looks to every night. it's the words she whispers to herself when her heart is bleeding a little. It's the Life inside her that makes everything else slightly less significant. it's the Safe place to run.

 This girl, given six gifts, must use what she has been given to live a life that would make her Father proud. when she sees Him for the first time, He'll ask her what she did with them. and she'll give Him her story.

What are you doing with your six gifts?

With Greater Love,
 ~*Anna*~