Father Knows Best

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This old gal…

Has to kind of laugh thinking about that long ago family reunion…a few weeks after high school graduation…got a gift from a relative…

An iron and an umbrella…18 year old me gracious…thankful…but inside thought an umbrella…I’ll never use an umbrella…

But 18 year old me hadn’t been to college yet…hadn’t had to walk to class regardless of weather…and the first storm of that freshman year…she was thankful for that umbrella…

And kept it…and used it…for the next 35 years…until it finally gave up the ship…that little blue umbrella…so wisely chosen…turned out to be the best graduation gift ever…

And so it is…in life…sometimes Father knows best and other times when it comes to umbrellas…it’s that beloved aunt of yours that does…
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And those daughters of mine…agrees…