Blog 3337 – 12.22.2024
As You Wish
One of my daughter Emily’s favorite movies both as a little girl and as a young adult was The Princess Bride. In the movie, the farm boy Wesley is completely smitten by the lovely and petulant Buttercup, played by a young and lovely Robin Wright. Buttercup gives Wesley a hard time and is forever asking him to do things for her and no matter how difficult or nonsensical, Wesley just cannot say no to her requests. All he ever says to her is, “As you wish.”
I believe in a Higher Power, our Highest and Best Self. Jesus refers to that higher power as “Our Heavenly Father” in the prayer that he taught his disciples to pray. He goes on to say in another places, “Ask whatsoever you will believing and you shall receive.” And in yet another place in the New Testament it is written that all the promises of God are, “Yes, Yes.” It seems that our higher power, highest and best self, Heavenly Father, God, finds it impossible to say “No” to us.
I am a little over fifteen months a grandparent and Emma Grace like her Auntie Em who died eleven years before Emma was born, both have taught me how hard in is for a loving daddy or grand daddy to say “No” to his child or grandchild.
Emma gets a kick out of taking her daddy’s hat off, so last weekend when my wife and I visited I wore a cap Emma could pull grandpa’s hat off too. She is thus far a woman a few words, but when she says “hat” or “cap” that means she wants your hat. She thrills to pull of your hat and wear it herself. Yesterday I wore a big cowboy just for Emma. She loved it.
Emma also loves to play with her daddy’s keys and knows that he keeps them in his pocket. When I was holding her she said “Keys” so I gave her my keys and she was playing with them. I keep a small Swiss Army Knife on my key ring, a tradition my son also follows so he warned me that Emma already knows how to open a pocket knife. I took my keys back and he gave her his without his Swiss Army Knife attached.
Later Emma kept asking me for my keys and it broke my heart to say no to that sweet little pleading face. I promised her that next time I see her I’d bring her a set of keys of her very own. My daddy did that for Jay when he was a little guy.
My wife and I are planning to visit Jay and Emma again today as wife, mother, nurse Lauren has another twelve hour shift at the hospital today. We feel less imposing when Jay has baby sitting duty. This will be the first time that we visited Emma two days in a row.
I made up three sets of keys for Emma. My plan is for the foreseeable cutting to always carry an extra set of keys in my pocket just in case she says “keys.”
I hope to be still hanging around for her sixteen birthday and if I make it rest assure there will be a set of car keys in grandpa’s pocket that day with Emma Grace’s name on them.
Have you asked anything of your higher power lately. He/She is eager to reply, “As you wish.”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White
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