My Dad…

Today is my dad’s birthday and I am feeling blessed.

Blessed that my father is still with me and I will be able to talk to him today and hear his voice. My heart hurts for all the daughters whose fathers have passed, knowing they’d love to hear their dad’s voice just once again.

I was blessed as a little girl, a teenager, a young woman, and now a woman of age to have a dad who never told me I couldn’t achieve any desires or dreams. A dad who encouraged me supported me strengthened me, and never once told me I couldn’t accomplish something because I was a girl!

I was loved and cherished by my dad and because of him and his example I grew up very independent, self-assured and hardworking.

Do you know who else loves us like this? God, that’s who!

John 1:14 NIV “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

God became flesh, (human) and walked with us! Jesus Christ, the son of God the perfect example. Through Christ, we are made whole, loved, cherished actually, we are never told we can’t accomplish our goals.

Philippians 4:13 NLT “For I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”

We have a loving God who wants a relationship with us, you might not know the true love of an earthly father and for this, I grieve because trusting in a father comes much easier if you grew up with one however it is never too late to learn the love from the perfect Father!

Romans 8:14-17a NCV “The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them. The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear; it makes us children of God. With that Spirit we cry out, ‘Father.’ And the Spirit himself joins with our spirit to say we are God’s children. If we are God’s children, we will receive blessings from God together with Christ.”

So whether you were blessed with a great earthly father or not the bottom line is God the Father and his love for you. Yep, You!

Be blessed today and as always…thank you for joining me. 🥰