Dear Child of Mine

Dear Child of mine

I see your life and vitality and I love your eagerness to please. Your heart is vibrant. I pray that you will encounter the God who so lovingly formed you to be this small package that simply bounces into a room. 

I pray that you will learn to harness your emotions and hopes, that you will find perseverance in your dreams, that your creativity would unfold in the presence of the God who created you. 

I pray for the man you will one day meet, fall in love with and marry. I pray that he would meet the God who will win your heart, and know the love of a Father who does not disappoint. I pray for you both to hold on, live without sexual regret, and find the gift of giving yourself to one person in your life for the rest of your life. 

So many prayers and hopes and dreams... I have so many in the midst of homework, meals, cleaning, dressing, baths, reading marathons and trying to turn your lights out. 

My daughter, you bring me to my knees as I plead for wisdom in how to parent you. As I fall on the grace of God again and again when I mess up those moments and when we clash hard on seemingly small things. 

I love you, my blonde curly-haired small girl. My greatest desire is not wealth for you, wisdom, humility or anything else. It's that you will fall in love with the God who so deeply, radically loves you and always has and always will. 

Your mom