“A Tribute to my Dad”
 
Dear Dad,
 
Do you wish to know the biggest thing that gets me through the days, with you no longer in my earthly life? It’s my thought of knowing and believing that you now exist in a beautiful place. A place which I believe in my heart and mind, where you are freed of your pain, where you can continue your game of golf (and having your glass of wine at the eighteenth hole) and watch B.S.U. play on one of Heaven’s big screen t.v.’s.
 
It eases the severe pain in what is left of my heart, that you can be together again with your loved ones who passed before you. The only thing that I question is if you can feel sadness where you are because if that is so, I would surely have no heart left.
 
I feel happy at the fact that God chose for us to be father and daughter. You’ve taught me a great deal about life and its’ lessons. You tried to instill in me the importance of working and holding down a job in order to help in my marriage and have future savings. After letting you down many times in that department, I now see the big picture.
 
Therefore, I vowed after you died that I would no longer let you down. I am now working for the hospital full time and volunteering the rest of my time working with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Boise.
I miss you daily, your smile, our lunch dates, our conversations and sitting on your back porch watching the finches perform their acrobats. I miss everything about you, Dad. Great, now here come the tears filling up my eyes. Missing you is difficult in so many ways.
 
I thank you for being the best father a girl could ever ask for and I’m so terribly sorry for ever letting you down. As I now end, I wanted to ask one favor of you. Please greet my best friend, Zoey dog, when she crosses the Rainbow Bridge and don’t ever let her out of your arms.
 
Dad, I love you with all that I have inside of me. I will go on to make you proud. Please always stay by my side, pushing me as I strive to climb mountains.
 
Love,
 
Kelly