The three gifts
When I said goodbye to my eldest daughter this morning, I left her a letter with three gifts: A padlock with keys, an electrical connector that converts from three to two legs and a Rosary.
I wrote to her that each gift had an explanation, now that she was going to be further away from us and alone, she had to know how and when to use them.
The padlock is a mirror of her life, she is an introvert, she does not speak much, something that sometimes worries us, her parents and that it was a way of making her see that there are things that are kept closed, but it also opens and they can go out, everything It is in knowing when to close and open your Heart, your life to others, your feelings, your emotions. The closed padlock will secure the most precious of your values, sometimes when you open it you feel relief.
The second gift is a simple three-legged to two-legged electrical converter (it will work well in that old apartment) but it also teaches us how to adapt to the situation when the changes from three to two and two to three come as necessary. It is the symbol of the adaptation of the changes in life.
The last gift is the Rosary that I used every day, it has been my support for the last two years in my professional life. This is one of the ones your grandmother used every day.
This gift is the most important of all since the Rosary will serve to give thanks, to ask for blessings and to know when to use the padlock, the electric converter when to pray that God continues to put Angels in our path, when one needs them most. And there I left it on the dining room table so that she could read it and now that she is further away she knows that we will always be pending.
The Colonel Aug 14, 2011
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