dear bo,

What's been the best day of your life?

It's been a long-standing question and can be answered in many ways... happiest day, most surprised by God day, day of the greatest gift ever, day when time stood still, or day when all was right with the world. Well, my best day incorporates all of the above.

As of today I have lived 20,222 days, and that's a lot to choose from! Maybe I'm supposed to say that my best day was the one when I met Christ, or perhaps my wedding day. Great days, they were. Extraordinary ones! But, sorry God and Kathie, my best day ever was June 5, 1983.

That was the day I met you. Almost 30 years ago came the day that a wave of surprise and firsts and overwhelming joy and baseball games and a future-that-I-can't-control came crashing over me.

If it were your brother or sister born on that day, it would've still been the greatest day. Because God was stretching me on that day as never before to that point. And He continues to grow me through you, even as you called Sunday night from Virginia to just check in on me.