I’ve been alienated from my daughter since she was little and have had no choice but to spend the last decade apart from her, depressed to no end, but still holding on to hope, praying that God would bring her home to me someday. Fast forward to now - she graduates this year and was able to spend Christmas with me for the first time since she was little! It’s a long story on how it came to be; years of physical and emotional abuse from her mother, culminating in a Protection From Abuse hearing thanks to my daughter’s bravery.. but here she is now, smiling, still as sweet and sensitive of a person as I have prayed for so many long years that she would continue to be, telling me she loves and missed me and never wants to be apart from me again. Said today was the best Christmas she’s ever had. This old war veteran may have shed a tear today. What an amazing time of healing. An absolute miracle and the greatest blessing the Father could have given me for Christmas (besides sending his only son!).