"Daddy's" Girl

When I was young I was a daddy's girl. Mom and I got close the more I moved into womanhood. My dad was a true picture of the Father to me. He loved me unconditionally. He gave me himself, his love, his time, his money, his talents. He gave me him.

I remember the barbecue pit he built we use to roast marsh mellows on with his Sunday School class he taught. THe times he would take me shopping for school clothes just before school started even though he was working two jobs to make it. The first time he showed me the ocean and the run and play on the beach. He loved for me to laugh and tickel me, he would say you wantta see a cow eat corn and he would grab my knee and begin to try to make me laugh. The time he taught me to ride my bike and roller skate. The motor he put on the back of my surrey with the fringe on top. And the time He caught me off of the high dive. He was always there to enjoy me and delight over me. We danced and laughed and road around in his car with the windows rolled down. I remember the time he had to put my dog down and how I road off on my bike as fast as I could as far as I could until I heard the gun go off. I remember the bunny rabbit he bought us and how it would get in the toilet. How he use to call me Debs. No body did that but my dad. He had a name just for me. I not only shared happy times with my dad but hard times, hurtful things. He always knew my heart. He loved my sister and I unconditionally and was the best dad a girl could have. He never rejected us or made us doubt his love. We trusted him completely. I love you dad and miss you bunches, kiddo, he use to say.

Some of you didn't have such happy childhoods and there is still lots of pain when you think of the dad you had or didn't have with you. I want you to know your Father in heaven is the dad you never had. He will never disappoint you. He will never leave you nor turn on you. He will always provide for you and meet your needs. Nothing can separate you from the Fathers love. He is a Father to the Fatherless. If He hasn't already let Him show you how you are His precious child who he chose before time and adopted into His kingdom family. You are rich and blessed and loved. Let Him heal your heart and your hurts and pains and memories of things just too painful to remember but on days like this when they won't stop flashing through your mind. He took the rejection on the cross for you and me. So we will never be rejected. He will never let you down. He knows what is best for you and you can trust Him completely. Your relationship with the Father can be as real and more satisfying than any relationship on earth. He knows your heart. Your thoughts before you think them. All there is about you and He wants to hold you in His arms and spend time with you forever.

Thank you Father for loving us beyond anything we can imagine we ever need. Thanks for filling that whole in the pit of our stomach and the center of our hearts that we think only a earthly father can fill. You are our creator and love us with an everlasting, sustaining, love that brings us to peace, joy and contentment. You will never let us go. Nothing can ever separate us from your love or affections for us. You write a song and sing it over us. You delight and find great joy in us and who we are. You are a part of us as your Spirit lives in us with your Son. You love us as much as you love Jesus. Nothing we do, think or say can ever change your love for us because we are yours. You know the worst things there is about us and love us like your very own anyway. We may run away from you but you will never turn your back on us. As a matter of fact you run after us till we are in your embrace and nothing can pry us loose.  You have a special name just for us in Heaven.  I love you "Daddy". Thanks for rescuing me and making me your own.  I am my "Daddy's" girl.