The times are changing! Life is like this. All parents say, "enjoy them now because they grow up so fast!" It is strange to see your little girls grow into young women before your eyes, but it does happen. It is amazing to see and watch. My job as a dad is to be sure that I am there loving their mother and leading them day by day. We are reading through Esther with the older girls and it provides us with a great picture of what a dad should be in the life of his daughter. Mordecai (by the way means warrior, men need to be a gentle warrior for the sake of their loved ones) adopted Esther when she was young. He taught her and guided her and she learned that he was good and she obeyed him. When she was taken into the palace of the greatest ruler of the day, Mordecai still came by everyday to see how she was getting along. That is a good consistent dad! I read a quote recently about Jonathan Edwards, the last of the American Puritans. He was a great man, maybe the greatest scholar and thinker that America has ever produced! The quote said, "Edwards read the Bible diligently everyday to his 11 children and prepared them for worship, his own children benefited greatly from his ministry, committing themselves to lives of holiness and service." I want to be like that!
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