Good Morning,
I woke up this morning and knew that I needed to share something that I was dealing with the other day. I was watching something on t.v and it was a father telling his daughter that he loved her, cherished her and that she was his only daughter so he wanted to make sure he spend some personal time with her to let her know that she was important. I just begin to tear up and eventually cry. Where were these tears coming from? This emotion was one I don't think I have ever really felt until now.
I am 26 years old and my biological father has never truly been present in my life, just in and out when I was younger but nothing really true, nothing really genuine. My step-dad was in my life from about 7 until a few years ago when my parents separated and our relationship kind of fizzled a little and in that our relationship had been a little rocky due to things from when I was a teen but with all that being said I realized that I truly desire to have my earthly father tell me these same words. These emotions that were stirred up within me were so unfamiliar I didn't even know what to do with them. A father's love is so essential, even if we don't think it does. I just knew that I didn't need that love and that I was just fine without a father...RIGHT?? He was the one missing out...Right? Quickly I found myself missing them and wishing I had a better relationship with them. Oh, to only hear those words spoken to me as an only daughter would be to me like water in the desert.
I look at my two daughters and I am so grateful that they have that. Their father loves them more than he can even express and I know they are jewels to him. In fact my husband tells my daughters all the time how beautiful they are, how precious they are and how much he loves them so much that our oldest expects to hear it every time her hair gets done. She automatically walks over to him and looks at him waiting to hear those words of love as if mommy's words weren't good enough.
Just sitting here now I can't help but to think of the love of my father in heaven, God. After the incident of me crying and desiring to hear those words, he spoke them to me. Letting me know that I was precious, loved and valuable. God loves me that much to see that I was having a hard time with the realization that I didn't have that, and whispered it to me letting me know that his love surpasses all.
Fathers I urge you to make sure you tell your daughters how beautiful, precious, and loved they are by you. Believe me, it means a lot. I am older and still need to hear those words and although I don't have my earthly fathers telling me this, I have my heavenly father who loves me unconditionally. A father who doesn't leave me, who never changes, who doesn't move around everywhere, who constantly checks up on me and is ever near.
1 Corinthians 13:1-10
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3 -7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8 -10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.
I woke up this morning and knew that I needed to share something that I was dealing with the other day. I was watching something on t.v and it was a father telling his daughter that he loved her, cherished her and that she was his only daughter so he wanted to make sure he spend some personal time with her to let her know that she was important. I just begin to tear up and eventually cry. Where were these tears coming from? This emotion was one I don't think I have ever really felt until now.
I am 26 years old and my biological father has never truly been present in my life, just in and out when I was younger but nothing really true, nothing really genuine. My step-dad was in my life from about 7 until a few years ago when my parents separated and our relationship kind of fizzled a little and in that our relationship had been a little rocky due to things from when I was a teen but with all that being said I realized that I truly desire to have my earthly father tell me these same words. These emotions that were stirred up within me were so unfamiliar I didn't even know what to do with them. A father's love is so essential, even if we don't think it does. I just knew that I didn't need that love and that I was just fine without a father...RIGHT?? He was the one missing out...Right? Quickly I found myself missing them and wishing I had a better relationship with them. Oh, to only hear those words spoken to me as an only daughter would be to me like water in the desert.
I look at my two daughters and I am so grateful that they have that. Their father loves them more than he can even express and I know they are jewels to him. In fact my husband tells my daughters all the time how beautiful they are, how precious they are and how much he loves them so much that our oldest expects to hear it every time her hair gets done. She automatically walks over to him and looks at him waiting to hear those words of love as if mommy's words weren't good enough.
Just sitting here now I can't help but to think of the love of my father in heaven, God. After the incident of me crying and desiring to hear those words, he spoke them to me. Letting me know that I was precious, loved and valuable. God loves me that much to see that I was having a hard time with the realization that I didn't have that, and whispered it to me letting me know that his love surpasses all.
Fathers I urge you to make sure you tell your daughters how beautiful, precious, and loved they are by you. Believe me, it means a lot. I am older and still need to hear those words and although I don't have my earthly fathers telling me this, I have my heavenly father who loves me unconditionally. A father who doesn't leave me, who never changes, who doesn't move around everywhere, who constantly checks up on me and is ever near.
1 Corinthians 13:1-10
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3 -7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8 -10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.
TeAndra! I love this! It's so funny b/c JUST yesterday I found a note from my parents to you (clearly they didnt give it to you b/c I saw it under some papers on the desk lol) but the note was just saying how proud of you that they are and how much that they love and care for you. I know it's not the same as the love you were talking about in your post..but they love you! And I loveee you and as your friend I am extremely proud of you, there's a lot of roads that you could have taken in your life but you took the right road and God is blessing you for it...
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Toni R
Teandra you are the most wonderful person i will ever have the blessing of knowing! You truly do have the voice of God each and every time you open your mouth to utter word. It's like hearing the voice of God literally dont ever let anyone take that away from you! I know if no one else has love for me you do! LOVE YOU LIL CUZZ!
ReplyDeleteTeAndra these words are trully inspirational to someone who has dealt with the same things that you have. Of course I will never know how you feel, being that I had my earthly father my entire life. But even for someone who has had their earthly father can take something from this. Love you.
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