Hello Daddy I just wanted to come to you to say a big thank you to the day you thought about forming me in my mother’s womb.

Thank you for when you formed me in my mother’s womb. Thank you for when you carefully formed my bones and in body.

 Thank you for when you brought me into this world successfully on the 1st of July 1989. I was so ecstatic that I cried in glory of your works that my five senses worked to perfection.

Thank you for the already made milk you prepared for me and the loving home that you welcomed me into.

Thank you for making me the first born son of the wonderful you selected to be my parents.

Thank you for the first steps I took in crawling on to my two feet.

Thank you for provision you made available to my parents to cater for me- my food, clothing, shelter, water and other material elements.

Thank you for when you gave my parents two other children after me. Thank you for my beautiful sisters, Edwina and Davida. I know I wanted Davida to turn out to be a male when she was in the womb but I thank you for you knew the amazing little sister she would turn out to be for me.

Thank you for the making Benjamin my cousin come live with us since he was 7 and that he became a brother that I always wanted.

Thank you for the constructive criticisms my mother rained on me daily growing up and even still. Many times it gets me down but then when I carefully ponder, it raises me higher past my mistakes.

Thank you for those times when my dad beat me when I did things that displeased him because it all helped to shaped me into who I am now. Even for the times when I went to bed early when I had done something wrong to avoid my father’s chastisement only to wake up in the morning to receive it I say thank you.

Thank you for the friends and family I had, have and will continue to have all around me, in my community, church, school, society, nation and world as a whole.

Thank you for all my teachers who have taught me even the very tiniest bit of knowledge throughout all the classes and schools I have been in.

Thank you for the two car accidents I know of that you saved me from and for the many others I do not know about I say thank you.

Thank you for fighting my battles for me and lifting me up from the jaws of death.

Thank you for the angels of the Lord that encompassed me round about.

Thank you for results you gave me in all tests, assignments and examinations I took I say thank you.

Thank you for the day you convicted me and I made a decision for follow you for the rest of my life by accepting Jesus as my Lord and Personal Saviour.

Thank you for the water and Holy Spirit Baptism you gave me and I say Papa thank you for your gift of salvation.

Thank you for all the servants of God and vessels of God who brought my way and those I had the privilege of sitting under their feet to help me grow spiritually in getting to know you.

Thank you for when you helped me to discover my inborn talent and ability through some friends. Thank you more especially for the gift of writing you gave to me to be able to touch the lives of many.

Thank you for the ideas and manifold wisdom you grant to me daily in the writings.

Thank you for the past relationships I got into and for the reason that they taught me a lot about how to treat people especially women.

Thank you the one I’m now in and for how far you have brought Vida and I.

Thank you for my unique personality and identity.

Thank you for those hard times that I go through which makes me stronger.

Thank you for the way I smile, talk, laugh, sleep, drink, walk, run, think, sit, stand, run, write and for the many other things within my character I cannot continue to mention.

Thank you for making me like and you granting me the ability to love- You, me and all others around me.

Thank you for those times went I felt I couldn’t go on any longer for I learnt to trust in my God that watches over me.

Thank you for the times when I had no money in my pocket and my finances not good for I learnt that my Father owned the whole world and I was heir to his throne. In those times you carried me through and made sure I never lacked my basic needs.

Thank you for the idea for granted me a few days ago that will change the course of my life.

Thank you for every single time I talked to you and you listened.

Thank you for every single birthday I celebrated and now 20 years of age I say Daddy thank you.

Thank you those times when I was so afraid and shy for who gradually built my confidence and made me fearless.

Thank you for me not getting angry when people think I would.

Thank you for taking me to Ivory Coast- the little French I study, the tons of experience I had in work, the lovely people I met there, the money you gave to me to invest back home, the long distance calls I made, the stressful times I had in work and for pulling me through and for the wonderful family and friends that took care of me, for divine favour you showered on me, and the safe journeys you gave me I say thank you.

Thank you for granting me admission in Presbyterian Boy’s Secondary School and for taking me from there to the University of Ghana. For the courses I undertook and I’m still taking I’m still say thank you.

Thank you for direction that you always give me every second in my life.

Thank you for the life of the blessed person who is reading this now.

Thank you for making me a blessing in the lives of many people

Thank you for giving me life in the first place for without if I would never have enjoyed what plans for me.

Thank you for being with me.

Thank you that I will never stop thanking you in my life for you are Good!

Thank you for the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit who are ever-present in my life.

I know that even as I celebrate my 20th birthday which will mark a turnaround in my life, I appreciate all you have done for me. I cannot even start to imagine what you have in store for me and so I thank you for what you have done and what you keep unfolding day by day to me.

Thank you for everything!

Thank YOU! In Jesus’ Name…AMEN!