Everywhere I look I see my Daddy!

A dear friend of mine was talking to me today as she was preparing to sell a car she had that had been her father’s. It has now been a year since he went Home to be with the Lord, and she was remembering him. It was very sweet to hear her as she cleaned, as she remembered him sitting here, or doing that, she just chattered along. Then she said something that made my heart skip a beat,she said, “Everywhere I look I see my Daddy.” As she said these precious words my soul cried out ME TOO! You see everywhere I look I see my Daddy, My Heavenly Father. He is the One my soul yearns for, the One whose lap I crawl into and it is His arms I long to have around me. As she spoke, I heard the great love in her voice; she had for her daddy, also the deep pain that he was no longer with her. Death is very painful, even when you know that a loved one is with the Lord, and you will see them again. I have known the pain of the loss of loved ones, I have seen the passing of my parents, my husband and I have known the pain of miscarriage. The separation is painful and the loss very real, yet somehow as time goes on, you can remember and smile and the sweetness of the relationship comes back, and strange as it may sound you learn to embrace the pain. The remembering is bittersweet at times. The joy is tempered by pain and the pain is tempered by the love. What a comfort to know that my Lord, my Master, my God, my Savior knows these things too. Everywhere I look, I too see my Daddy, my Heavenly Father. If I am His and He is mine then He is always with me, because He said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” He is my High tower and my Shelter from the Storm.
I love my parents because they loved me. They were the first ones to show me love. When I had my children, I fell hopelessly in love each and every time I looked into that precious face, or help that dear sweet baby. I have come to see that my limited love is as nothing, compared to the love of God. How much more Love has my Heavenly Father shown me than any earthly father ever could? My heavenly Father loves me completely, and He prepared the only way for me to return to Him, thru the shed blood of His Only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have, everlasting life. He loves each and every one of His children and He loved us first. It was because of His love that He chose to become man, to live and to
die. Because He is God, perfect and sinless to Rise again and sit on His Throne. He and He alone was able to pay the Blood Price for sin, He knows every tear that falls. Now that is LOVE. I don’t know why He chose me, but I know I am glad He did.

“Oh how I love Jesus, Oh how I love Jesus, Oh how I love Jesus,
Because He first loved me!”