letter to my father...

daddy i appreciate you...

you have always taken care of all of my needs...and daddy i thank you...
you watched over me...and daddy i thank you...
you disciplined me...and daddy i thank you...

daddy...there were times when i wanted something and you told me no...
daddy...there were places and i wanted to go and you would not allow it...
daddy...there were things that i wanted to do and you kept me from it...
i didn't know at the time that you had your hand on me and that you were keeping me from evil...
i just thought that things weren't going my way...that i could not get it right...that i was a failure and that success was not a part of my name...

there were times when i wanted a certain man and you wouldn't let him treat me right...
why?...not because he was not a good person...but because i would have put that man before you and i never would have known the warmth from living in your love...i never would have thirsted after you...i never would have fallen in love with you so that you could me into that proverbs 31 woman and when sent me a godly man that loves me the way christ loves the church i would be ready to receive him...

the bible says that we perish for lack of knowledge...i was dying and i did not know it...

i did not know that were delivering me from evil...
you were leading me away from temptation...
you were protecting my very life...for surely the devil would have killed me...