Life Guides

I am not a Christian, but I do like the idea of “God Parents”.  For that reason, I felt that I needed to find an alternative that suited us.  I thought long and hard about this and came up with “Life Guides” as appropriate for our situation.  I wrote a poem and sent it to the requested life guides.  Here is that poem:

Life Guide:

 

Please will you be my life guide,

a person to whom I can turn,

a person who helps me to grow,

to experience, to question, to learn.

 

Please will you be there for me,

for all that will lie ahead,

and if my parents can’t be there,

will you please stand by me instead?

 

Can you share your experience and knowledge,

to guide me on my own path,

and if none of the above seems necessary,

let’s share in our joy, dance and laugh!