Dear Daughter, You Should Marry Your Daddy
Dear daughter of mine,
You are at an age where you want to marry your daddy. You light up like a Christmas tree when he compliments you, and you live for one on one “dates” with him.
If I say something, you might hear me and take note, or you might let my words drift and dissolve like a snowflake in springtime. If he says something, you still to listen and his words become engraved on your heart.
When you gush about wanting to marry him, I laugh and tell you he is already taken, but if we are being honest, I want nothing more than for you to marry your daddy. Here’s why:
7 Reasons You Should Marry Your Daddy
1) He loves Jesus
He doesn’t just know about Jesus or sit quietly by my side in a pew on some Sundays. Daddy doesn’t just take you to church, he doesn’t wait for a Sunday school teacher to show you God’s truth, or to flesh it out for you to bear witness.
He really loves Jesus and knows Him as his savior, refiner, and friend. Marry a man like that.
2) He loves your imperfect mama
Oh boy is your mama outmatched 😉 by all of life’s circumstances. I complain when I should be grateful, and I clam up with evaded words when I should speak. Other times I yak WAY too much, and he can’t get a word in edgewise. Most days I am simply a wretched sinner whose only hope is Jesus. Yet he loves me.
His love is not conditional based on my attitude, my waist size, or even how well I have treated him. He has made a choice to love me in spite of my many, many flaws and my desperate and constant need for more Jesus.
Marry a man like that.
3) He’s an in-the-tub kinda daddy
Remember when your first little brother was born and you wondered why mama and daddy were bathing in such dirty water? Still ask me again when you are older about the water, but take note of daddy’s presence in the tub.
If mama is in the tub, daddy is right there with me. I don’t have to ask him to do that. He jumps in because he promised to stick with me, even when it’s messy. This promise flows deeper than words aptly spoken to a woman in a white dress, he lives them daily.
Rember that time when you had a noxious belly ache? I put you in a warm bath, the last on my long mama list of things to aid you and even the warm soothing water wasn’t helping? I threw my hands into the air because I had run out of mama tricks to comfort you. Before I can utter a humble outcry for help, your daddy jumped in with his swim trunks on. He talked to you about puppy dogs, and doll baby names, and tea parties, and warm salty beach days until you forgot all about the pain.
He’s an in the tub daddy. He never bails when it’s messy. He doesn’t wait to be asked.
Marry a man like that.
4) He chooses kindness over grumbling
When I am grumbling, and oh how I grumble, he chooses kindness. When I feel like grumbling, he reminds me to be kind. When you are grumbling, he stands firm on the truth. He is like a guardrail on a busy, icy road – protecting you and me from falling off the edge.
I didn’t know I needed that so badly. I didn’t know your strong-will would require that so regularly. But God knew.
Marry a man like that.
5) He’s always at the ready
He became a daddy in an instant, by choice. Even amongst the stress of being in a doctorate program, being a new parent of two young kiddoes and a newborn, he came in the door every day and let you swarm him like ants to a melted ice cream cone. Even before he had dropped off his load of computers, and books, and white coats, and patient notes he was your daddy.
He is never too busy to drop everything for you. He knows the importance of these little years. He is always at the ready to rescue, protect, and play.
Marry a man like that.
6) He loves you with reckless abandon
The kind of reckless abandon that keeps him up at night when you are sick or plops him into the tub when you need it most, keeps him loving you without heeding thought of himself or his own gain.
He’s always available to run to the store at a moments notice should his family need something, to run you or your brothers to the doctor, or to spend countless hours helping me organize your clothes or choose your homeschooling curriculum.
There are likely close to a million other things he’d rather do, but he loves us more than he loves himself.
Marry a man like that.
7) He dies daily
Which brings me to my final point. The world won’t understand why you want a husband who bears his cross and dies to himself every day. The world will think you and he have one too many screws loose and that your once shiny marbles are long gone. But remember daughter, they thought Jesus was crazy too, and it’s Him we are seeking.
The apostle Paul meant it when he said, “I die daily.” Your daddy makes a conscious choice to die to himself and do things God’s way every. Single. Day. That’s a feat not easily accomplished, and something I merely attempt to attain.
Marry a man like that.
So, daughter, you can see why I married the man. Seeking Christ alongside him, and parenting you (and all your brothers) as a united team with him have been the greatest God-breathed blessings.
Don’t get me wrong, he is a flawed human being. One who leaves his dishes in the sink for eons, won’t touch a washing machine with a ten-foot pole, and he buys the wrong cheese on a consistent basis. Yep. The wrong cheese. Sometimes he even leaves his dirty socks on the nightstand! (Eww)
It is my prayer that you notice the qualities that Christ has pruned and refined within your daddy, and you never settle for anything less than what God has planned for you (dirty socks and all 😉 ).
Yes, daughter, I hope you do marry your daddy.
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