Milly @ thirty!

 

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Millicent Jayne Tullia Heer McLean,

you are our daugh-ta and we're glad you came.

Sister to more than 'Trina bore, and named;

said it before, say it for sure again..

the love from above was poured, though not shoved,

nor vain; for you awoke - responding to

what came to you in hand of flesh engloved

in fam'ly round about (though mortals) who

would need themselves that love engloved in you.

Your patient & determined spirit talks,

and acts, regarding hardest things to do,

a brave strength who resists & rarely baulks

but makes herself speak out (and act) what's true.

You've tasted trouble and anxiety,

which makes your struggle more fruitful in view

of facts, for you enact something lovely.

A wife who shares life with her man, Duncan.

a mother now of pidgeon pair ('ny more?),

a neighbour to some lucky women/ men,

and colleague, fellow mother, daught'r-in-law,

and other rolês in this life are still played,

and will be played as options come along.

Oh God, she has capacity as made,

and in continued singing your great song…

the song that goes beyond, and further than

desires for comfort and to feel at ease;

of loyal faithful friendship, a woman

of - wisdom in her weakness, - thriving peace!

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Millicent: brave strength, a meaning that moves towards battle maiden… (http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Millicent )

She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me,’ for she said, ‘I have now seen the One who sees me.’ Gen. 16:13 NIVUK

My brothers and sisters, consider yourselves fortunate when all kinds of trials come your way, for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure. Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind. People like that, unable to make up their minds and undecided in all they do, must not think that they will receive anything from the Lord. James 1:2‭-‬8 GNBDC

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