Sunday 7 June 2009

a long forgotten Father-daughter conversation

Dear Beloved


I've been thinking about what you asked earlier and I decided to write to you...Actually, I never stop thinking about you, ever. You are always on my mind, in my heart and in my sight. I recall the first time you spoke to me. You were only 9 and eager to get home after hat seemed to be an unnecessary lesson on water baptism. As you said those words, and opened you heart to me, you were too young to realise their significance...13 years later, what a young lady you've turned out to be!


Now, in response to your request; you asked me to lead you and to give you specific instructions for a minute-by-minute walk with me. You asked for clarity on passion and why you seem to have been left out of the great loop- passionless and dreamless. You asked for hope. Beloved one, I have already answered your requested. I responded before you asked. I gave you the sun, which shows only a fraction on the intensity of my love for you. I gave you my word so that you would have a second-by-second guide on how to be. I also gave you my Son so that you would never ever be afraid to come to me.


My love, I see your struggles. I know the number of tears you have cried. I know that your heart is so shattered that you doubt it can be pieced back together. I know your fatigue after working all day and getting- nothing! My love, I know you. Do not fear the mountain. I created it for you to climb. I planned all of this, wounds, sores, aches and all. I see the end. Trust me, my love. I will not fail you.


You are unique, complete and exquisite. But do not think that you are so unique that I cannot define you. You are my loved one. You are my dove. I will not leave you hopeless and dreamless. Watch now as the seed planted years ago shoots out of the earth as a little seedling. If you were a mere garden vegetable, you would have sprouted already, born fruit and passed on. However, your destiny is greater.


You, my dear one, are the stuff that legends are made of. There will be talk of you long after you are gone. You will not live or die unnoticed. You are like a might oak tree, not a bean plant. So you need to dig deep into the earth, establish a foundation that can bear the greatness to come. Be patient as I mould you, patient as I work on my masterpiece.


I have loved you from the beginning and I always will.

Forever yours


Daddy

p.s. Take a look outside your window. That rainbow is a sign of my promise to you. I will not leave you to your own defences. I am here.