Dear Dad,
She sat in her room, alone. After running to the shelter of her small four white walled room she began to shake. She shook of pure fear, terror. As she sat on her cloud like bed, she broke down and allowed the roaring tears fall from her eyes like streams filtering down from a mountain top. She was stepping into one of her biggest fears… the unknown. A common fear amongst humans, we don’t seem to like the uncertainty that life brings us. But coincidentally that is also where we get the thrill of life. A soft gentle knock came from her door across the way and she muttered an even softer and broken
“Come in.”
There he was. Dad. He walked in, as he looked at her terrified face, he sat down on the edge of her bed and just looked. He did’t say anything, he just watched. As he was watching her quiet blubbers turned into sobs as he pulled her into a tight hug. He knew that the one thing she needed was to be held and told that “everything was going to be okay”. He said in her ear,
“I will never let you go.”
The words that stuck with her through everything.
This my friends was nine months ago. It was those words that my father said to me about the Race and life. He was proud of me, he told me that no matter what I did he would always support me. My dad, the strongest man I knew sat on my bed and cried with me about the uncertainty of life. He never ceased to see the goodness and the hope that God brings.
Thank you dad for always pointing not only me but all of your children back to Christ. You have set an example to all of us by leading this family head on for Jesus. You have shown me how to walk with the Lord through the good and the bad. I would not be the woman of God I am if I didn’t first have your example. I feel so unbelievably blessed to call you my father. Thank you for singing with me and constantly teaching me new things about music and worship. Thank you for ordering one meatball at Olive Garden. Thank you for laughing wicked hard with your family. Thank you for encouraging your wife and children. Thank you for opening your home to the children that don’t have one. Thank you for pouring out so much to the people that surround you. Thank you for investing so much into the people of Emmanuel and everyone else you meet. Thank you for stopping to buy a homeless man lunch in the city so that you can tell him all about our beautiful Savior. Thank you for being dedicated. Thank you for loving your family so well and blessing us constantly. Thank you for giving me a fresh prayer after I flop onto your bed in the wee hours of the night. Thank you for continuing to pray for your children and our spouses. Thank you for ceaselessly praying over our house. Thank you for walking in so much boldness and freedom. Thank you for marrying mom, you guys are real deal relationship goals. Thank you for being the cool, “hip” “swaggy p”. Thank you for teaching me how to drive…I could keep going. But I will leave you with this. Everyday I pray for my future family and I get excited because I know that they have a grandfather that will love them until the day he goes home to his Abba father. I pray for my husband and that he will be the father to my children the way that you are to me. I am so freakin’ blessed dad to be loved by you and to have you by my side in everything I do. I know that you are on my team. I know that you will NEVER let me go. I am safe with you dad. I love you so much. Most importantly though I am so proud of you. You have been the hands and feet of Jesus to this family my whole life, the Holy Spirit speaks through you into this family and you have the strength of God to take every day as it comes. You are the three in one example that Christ calls us to be, aside from Jesus of course. Thank you for leading this family in fearlessness and faithfulness. We love you so so much.
I love you, so so much!
Yours forever, Dozer
