Perspective

Last post on November 20th! Where have I been all this time. Well I haven't been out of the country nor have I been on vacation to a warm sandy beach. No I've been right here in the Bluegrass freezing through one of the worst and wettest winters we've had for years. So why haven't I made a post, hmmm, I'm not sure. As a matter of fact even now I am not sure of a clear direction for this post. Normally I do have a sense of direction as if I know what I should type. Perhaps it is not that I don't have a sense of direction but rather too many directions in which I feel I could go.




My little girl is growing up fast, too fast actually. This feeling comes as no surprise because when she was 10 1/2 months old and her 'striking beauty' became apparent, (a friend of ours used that language not daddy) I told my wife I was already dreading her beginning to date! My wife just rolled her eyes and mentioned something about all the years between then and now. But now two of them have already passed and we are screaming at break-neck pace towards 'sweet 16!!!!!!!!' She's talking about princes and getting married and wanting to date at AGE 3! Have I mentioned way too fast? Well, daddy is a member of the NRA and has a CCP, I love to hunt and have a few firearms and I'm certain that when every new boy visits daddy will be cleaning a weapon. Now take it easy I am certainly not advocating violence here but what I will be making known in an oh so subtle way is that any boy who dates my baby must realize that daddy is a force to be reckoned with!

I wonder how many other daddy's or even mommy's are like me? They worry about their children's future and who they'll spend their life with and while we are at it we worry about them going off to college. Heck driving to high school will be traumatic enough. As a matter of fact I'm even jumpy when she's running around on the playground equipment! What has happened to the reckless abandon of my youth? I was a boy once, maybe that's the problem! Driving cars fast, four wheeling my Jeep CJ5, being on two wheels or going off jumps in it, flying on streetbikes and racing dirtbikes, I even once rode two miles up into the air and jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and now I'm afraid when she jumps off the couch she'll hit her head on the coffee table! I know, I know, I'm a mess.

Being a daddy (or mommy) certainly changes your perspective doesn't it. If you can't see that now you likely will one day and when your perspective changes so too should your priorities. So what can we do about those days ahead over which we will have little if any control. Speak to the two who will have control over those days. Teach our children right from wrong and good from evil. Instill in them the knowledge of God and His Son Jesus and what has been done on our behalf because we won't be there when they have those difficult decisions to make and their decisions will be based upon what they have been taught so train them up in the way that they should go and when they are older they will not depart from it. Speak to God on their behalf and pray for their future, pray for their salvation even now and for the righteousness of their future spouse and the salvation of their children and their children's children. When you pray do so in such a way that you 'project' your prayers into the future where God is already standing by to guide them and care for them and trust in the fact that when you cannot be there, He already is!