Dear Father
How often I wonder, have You looked on the earth, smiled, counting the little girls with crisp white pillow cases trailing behind them playing falling in love and house-house and as the days pass a few years, You watch us giggling with friends, lips pursed and painted, against the self-same case now wrapped snugly around feathers, practicing our first kiss.
Time passes Father and You watch the innocence in our hearts taken and broken. Against our now faded to ivory pillows, we shed our tears. Wretched in despair we cry out for the love we dreamt of, the love we were told of, love we felt promised as princesses at bedtime from story books and the love we saw in glossy magazines, photos of laughing couples, the look of joy in the woman held firmly by strong loving arms, blissful and contented in an exotic dream.
Love lost to us, yet never really gained.
And how many times Father, have You cried down to us, to look to You.
For You are our Love. You have only the best for us in Your arms.
Yet we fly again like a moth to the candle, imbued by its deceitful whisper of light and fulfilment, fill the loneliness is our mission, fill it now. Only to be burnt and burnt and burnt again. These be our choices: fly to the whisper of promise in the flicker or hide from it. Some hide, some dont, both long.
Father, we know now we can only give our hearts to You, for You are the one who fills the longing inside of us. You have a promise for our lives and have chosen the friends You want us to share it with, we know too Lord that in our devotion to You we are filled, and through this, ready to become one body in the one You have chosen for us. We submit ourselves to You as daughters did to their Fathers generations before us, wholeheartedly and trusting, as You choose and prepare our futures. We give up all control Father, we will not hold on to our want and our choices, because we know that as the One who created us, You know us deeper than we know ourselves, You are our Father and You know what is best for us.
Thank You for loving us so dearly Dad, we Love You too.
xxxx
Forever Yours
Your daughter
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How often I wonder, have You looked on the earth, smiled, counting the little girls with crisp white pillow cases trailing behind them playing falling in love and house-house and as the days pass a few years, You watch us giggling with friends, lips pursed and painted, against the self-same case now wrapped snugly around feathers, practicing our first kiss.
Time passes Father and You watch the innocence in our hearts taken and broken. Against our now faded to ivory pillows, we shed our tears. Wretched in despair we cry out for the love we dreamt of, the love we were told of, love we felt promised as princesses at bedtime from story books and the love we saw in glossy magazines, photos of laughing couples, the look of joy in the woman held firmly by strong loving arms, blissful and contented in an exotic dream.
Love lost to us, yet never really gained.
And how many times Father, have You cried down to us, to look to You.
For You are our Love. You have only the best for us in Your arms.
Yet we fly again like a moth to the candle, imbued by its deceitful whisper of light and fulfilment, fill the loneliness is our mission, fill it now. Only to be burnt and burnt and burnt again. These be our choices: fly to the whisper of promise in the flicker or hide from it. Some hide, some dont, both long.
Father, we know now we can only give our hearts to You, for You are the one who fills the longing inside of us. You have a promise for our lives and have chosen the friends You want us to share it with, we know too Lord that in our devotion to You we are filled, and through this, ready to become one body in the one You have chosen for us. We submit ourselves to You as daughters did to their Fathers generations before us, wholeheartedly and trusting, as You choose and prepare our futures. We give up all control Father, we will not hold on to our want and our choices, because we know that as the One who created us, You know us deeper than we know ourselves, You are our Father and You know what is best for us.
Thank You for loving us so dearly Dad, we Love You too.
xxxx
Forever Yours
Your daughter
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