Poem and Prayer: Dedicated To My Daughter In Law

The poem was started within the week of our first meeting. I instantly loved you as a daughter apart from the fact that my son loved you as his wife-to-be.

These words are the genuine expression of how I feel about welcoming you into our family. They are also my pledge to you that as best as I know how I will continue to love you, to share with you, to make myself available for you, and to promote your welfare as a woman, a wife and a daughter.

What wonderful blessings God sends our way

In good gifts that come from above!

And the gift that He gave my son and me

Is a woman easy to love.

First, you prove you’re a special creation;

You wear God’s design on your life.

His beauty glows bright in your countenance;

You’re the portrait of a good wife.

Then, like me, you’re a genuine woman.

You display in your feminine charm

The sweet, gentler side of God’s nature:

Confident, dignified, and warm.

To all these good reasons I still must add

That you’re the belle my son chose.

He looked close at the garden in full bloom

And selected the fairest rose.

Now that you are officially his wife

I share in your hope and your joy

That God will grant you a lifetime of love

In the home you share with my boy.

I’m committed to praying for both of you,

To support in ways that I can;

To be the best mother-in-law there is

And support your stand by your man.

You’ve won my respect for all that you do:

Wedding cakes and gourmet dishes,

Self-care, business management and more

Your fine skills exceed my wishes.

So I thank God when I count my blessings

For the gifts He sends from above;

For His special gift to my son and me-

A woman so easy to love.

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