Talk about a tear jerker!

Ryan here.

So tonight Kim and I were going through the bedtime routine with Karsyn and out of her tiny little mouth came a sentence that shows she has a heart of pure innocence that only a sweet, little, (soon to be) 3-year-old can have. A heart that has yet to be touched by this difficult thing called life. A heart so full of love and kindness that it could take even the pesimistic person to a greater place. A heart so pure that it's almost as if you can hear an over tone of Jesus himself.

So Karsyn is lying down, Kim is sitting on her bed, I am on the floor, and Gibson is laying at the foot of her bed. Sunday nights, Kim's parents keep her over night. We were telling her how Gibson was looking for her and was so sad that he couldn't find her.

Out of nowhere she said it - the phrase that melted my heart. "I will ALWAYS Come Back To Gibson! Always!" (This is what Kim and I tell her whenever we drop her off somewhere.  "Mommy and Daddy will always come back for you.")

Such sencerity, Such Love! She is his girl and even more so he is her puppy!

Then as if that wasn't enough to bring tears to my eyes she starts leading us in our night time prayers!

"Dear Jesus thank you for all our blessings, for blessing Mommy and Daddy, June Bug, and Karsyn. I love you very much."

I couldn't be prouder. I couldn't be happier. More important though I couldn't have had a better reminder to be thankful. Even more so I couldn't have had a better reminder to simply let go and let the love in my heart shine.

It's so simple... so simple that the complexity of our adultness seems to overlook it. Sometimes it really does just take the innocence of a child to remind us to push all the BS of life to the side and let the love in our hearts shine.

So with this said, I am thankful for my beautiful wife, my precious daughter, my best friend Gibson, the health of my daughter on the way, and the fact that we are all here under this tiny 2-bedroom apartment roof together to share each other's company. May tonight forever be a memory embedded in my heart.