Happy Father's Day To The First Love Of My Life!

Happy Father's Day

To The First Love 

of my

Life

Dear Daddy,

On this Father's Day I am reflecting of the life lessons that you taught me.  The love that you provided me. The nurturing that you gave me. The joy, the laughter, the heartache, the pain.  

In today's society I don't think many men realize that the bond with their female child is most precious and will shape the way that she feels about herself, her self esteem, her sense of knowing her worth.  You father should be the first love of her life.  Based on this love, it will shape her mind, her values, what she will or will not accept.  Your demeanor, your show of love and support, your love of care and nurturing will define what she will choose as a man in the later years of her life.  

I look at my childhood and appreciate and revel in the presence of my father.  My father was and still is bigger than life.  Always present, always loving, always teaching, always motivating, always smiling.  He wanted me to be independent in thinking, educated, knowing my self worth, realizing that I am somebody, and that somebody was special.  He was the first man that I fell in love with, he was my first love.  The first man who brought me joy, brought me peace, happiness, laughter.

So, I sit here today, melancholy, twinges of sadness and tears as I remember my Daddy.  My light, my rock, my foundation, my strength. But without my Daddy's presence I wouldn't have been able to be blessed with the man that is my husband. The father of my children, the man that my little girl is in love with.  With the base and foundation of my father's love, I was able to have a better definition of what a good and loving man is. I was able to go through the frogs and find a prince. Father's, do you realize how much your presence is needed for your daughter's happiness as she grows?  So to all the wonderful father's out there who are there for your daughters, making an good impact on her life, thank you.  Thank you for allowing these little girls to grow up to be confident, stable and loving women.  Thank you.  

And Daddy, thank you. I still feel your presence, and I know that you are here, my journey is not yet over, but I will soon meet you there. You are always in my heart, and always in my mind, thank you for the love you gave to me to open my eyes to see, that there is so much more in life so many treasures just for me. So, though you are not here in the physical, I feel you in my spirit, my heart, my thoughts and mind. You were the very first love that my heart was to find.