This is a poem that I found in a children’s book that I recently read to my kids. I thought it was so beautiful.

Here it is:

You’re here for a reason, you certainly are.

The world would be different without you, by far.

If not for your hands and your eyes and your feet,

the world, like a puzzle, would be incomplete.

 

Even the smallest of things that you do

blossom and multiply far beyond you.

A kindness, for instance, may triple for days…

or set things in motion in different ways.

It travels much further

than you’ll ever know…

under the treetops…

over the snow…

till it’s wandered…

and fluttered…

and floated…

and twirled –

making things happen all over the world.

 

You’re here for a reason.

Its totally true.

You’re part of a world that

is counting on you.

So don’t be too worried

if some days fall flat.

Good things can happen,

even from that.

 

Life can be tricky, there isn’t a doubt.

You’ll skin your knees trying to figure it out.

But life works together, the good and the bad,

the silly and awful and happy and said,

to paint a big picture we can’t always see…

a picture that needs you, most definitely.

Remember that next time a day goes all wrong…

to somebody else, you will always be strong.

 

And that ball that you lose or that kite you let go

could make someone’s day –

you just never know!!

 

You are here for a reason. If you think you’re not,

I would just say that perhaps you forgot –

If not for your smile and your laugh and your heart,

this place we call home would be minus a part.

Thank goodness you’re here!

Thank goodness times two!

I just can’t imagine a world without you.