Happy Birthday Dad on Valentine's Day

Happy Birthday Dad!!  I love you!  I am so blessed that God allowed you to be born and on Valentine's Day...the holiday of love!  You have shown what true love is as Paul wrote in New Testament and was read at my wedding:

1 Corinthians 13 New Living Translation   Love Is the Greatest If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.  All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. Dad,  when I read this it is the sum of how you have been to Mom, Lori, myself, and to Tanya.  I see it in the way you treat your Grandma and Aunt Peggy.  I love you ,Dad and I thank God for your life and Him placing you in mine.  Thank you for marrying Mom and taking on Lori and I as your own daughters.  Thank you for creating a home for us that allowed us to realize who we were meant to be and with the structure and strictness that allowed us to have boundaries to keep us safe under your care.  Thank you for supporting me in my marriage and the mistakes I've made that led me to my relationship with Christ.  I thank God that you know Jesus and have a relationship with him.  I love you Dad.  Happy Birthday!