What do you want her to know?
To start off our discussion I pose a question: What do you want
your daughter to know? What is it that you wanted to know at her age?
Do you have the courage to tell her, to sit and have a candid
conversation with her, to look her in the eye? Or are you avoiding and hoping
she picks it up along the way? Can you tell her what you want her to know in
love and not like someone is pulling your teeth or are you terrified because of
your past? Terrified of someone finding out something that has kept you
in bondage for so long?
I dare you to take
God at his word, to believe that He is who he says he is, that he has not
forgotten you, or forsaken you and that what he has promised in his word
will come to pass. Talk to your daughters, tell them what you want them
to know, share with them why you are over protective, why you are rough, why
you reject them when you know they are hurting, why you dismiss them but don't
mean to. Tell them about your relationship with your mother and what you
needed to hear as you were growing up. Tell them the things that may have
made a difference in the choices you made in life. Tell them before it’s
too late.
Tell them how
never hearing I love you made you seek love in all the wrong places. Tell
them how abandonment and rejection made you build a wall around your heart to
keep the hurt out and there by people also. Tell them why you are
the way you are and if you don't know why, then begin to ask God to show you,
teach you, put you in the place where you can get help to understand why you
are the way you are. Be willing to face yourself, take courage and be
brave and search, because if you truly want a better life for your daughter you
owe it to yourself and to them to go on this journey.
Often we think of
a better life as material possessions but I am learning that it is also
emotional and spiritual well-being , we can have all the material possessions
in the world and still be the most miserable people in the world. People
will look at us and think we have it all together but on the inside we are
miserable, unhappy people, dying on the inside and often times we don't know or
understand why. Take back the power that God has given you over that
thing in your childhood, life etc. stop letting it run, rule and reign over
you.
You are the victor
here don't you know that? The battle has already been won and there are no
losers.
So
Be Brave, Be Courageous, Be Beautiful, Be Gorgeous and Be STRONG!
TELL YOUR DAUGHTERS! WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO KNOW!
