Good parental role models

Proverbs 1:8 listen when your father corrects you. Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.

On Wednesday night all family members other than my daughter and I were out. As we sat together she asked me 'dad can I come sit on your knee?' I asked her why she wanted to sit on my knee? To which she answered "does a girl need a reason to want to sit on her Dad's knee?"

Not the answer I was expecting but one that was most appropriate. As I thought of it later I realized at least for one of my three children I was fulfilling my role as a father. Someone who loved her unconditionally to whom she could come to, sit on my knee and feel comfortable and safe in the arms of her father.

We all need father figures, for many of us they were not a reality as grew up. The 'Good News' for us all in recovery is we all have a heavenly Father who loves us to whom we can go when we feel scared, uncertain, in unfamiliar territory and ask Him 'Dad can I sit on your knee' and unlike me' with my daughter on Wednesday He won't ask us why He will simply say to us COME!