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One thing I love about the heart…as each day we grow a little more

is it’s amazing ability to stretch…a little more than it’s ever stretched before.

As a child…how easily it stretches to cover our mom, dad, sisters and brothers….

and when we think that’s where the stretching ends…

it stretches even farther to cover our relatives and friends.

As we grow up…we are happy in this comfortable circle where we are…

surrounded by friends and family our heart doesn’t have to stretch out very far.

But time moving on is inevitable…and there will come a day

we realize how far our heart can stretch…when it’s time to move away.

We are thankful for how far it stretches…those times we feel alone

and how it stretches on to new friends, perhaps a partner…and a family of our own.

And for a while our heart is relaxes…until there comes a day

when it must stretch again…when our children move away.

Until one day, in our old age, when we smile

thinking about all the ways our life’s unfurled….

and give thanks for a heart that has the ability