The Princess Bride (one of my favorite movies) tells us that “as you wish means I Love You”. And I am here to tell you that they are right. As you wish means I Love You – In Luke 22:42 Jesus is praying to God the Father regarding His soon to be crucifixion and says “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Simply put – “not my will but yours be done” is Jesus’ way of saying “AS YOU WISH”.  There is no better example of Love than that of Jesus saying to God the Father: I love you and your children so much that I will do “AS YOU WISH” and lay down my life so that they may have eternal life. I know what Jesus accomplished when He loved the Father and us enough to say “AS YOU WISH”. But I wonder what God could accomplish through us if we loved Him enough to truly say to Him “AS YOU WISH”

I am sorry that we have put so much effort into giving you everything we didn’t have, that we’ve neglected to give that which we did have.

We didn’t teach you:

• to take your hat off when indoors
• to use the words sir and ma’am
• that underwear is called “under” for a reason
• to respect adults, whether you agree with them or not
• to hold the door for others
• to say please and thank you
• that yelling at your parents is unacceptable
• that any male can be a man, but it takes a real man to be a gentleman
• that any female can be a woman,  but it takes a classy woman to be a lady
• that in the real world not everybody gets a trophy
• that just because you think you deserve it does not mean that you do
• that the world owes you nothing, so work hard for what you want

I could go on for a while, but I will simply say that we failed you as a society when we gave you everything we didn’t have and forgot to give you everything our parents gave us.

                                                                              - Angel