Importance of Fathers to Their Daughters
>> Saturday, January 11, 2020
Importance of symbolizing the Heavenly Father
God describes His relationship to us as believers as the One who is our "Heavenly Father". Your role in interacting with your daughter provides the closest, real-life human example of the unseeable spiritual reality of how to relate with God. You can be the best example of how God is strong and protective, loving and gentle, knowledgeable and trustworthy. That is to say, as dad, you can provide that very important, intimate reflection of a God who is approachable and fun-loving to your daughter. How you interact with your daughter will be the way she learns to interact with God. Your best efforts will be incomplete and imperfect. That’s to be expected. However, your routine human interactions with your daughter provide her with a important spiritual roadmap of how to approach and interact with God the Father.
Being such a powerful influence in your daughter’s life may conjure up images of needing to be a super-hero or completing a “to do” list so long and complicated it seems impossible. That’s not the case. Being the father your daughter needs is simply a matter of doing non-complicated, sometimes routine, things over and over and over again.
Adapted from Focus on the Family, By Timothy L. Sanford, MA, LPC Read more...
