JESUS HAS TRULY BEEN A FATHER TO ME by Deirdre Rose January 23, 2014 Do you want to know what it is like being the daughter of Jesus? Well I will tell you. Aside from the fact that my Father is the most powerful man in existence, He is no different than any other father who loves his daughter. Every special moment in my life Jesus shared it with me. Every embarrassing and painful moment, Jesus was there and He comforted me. I did not know this at the time that it was happening, but Jesus has been letting me know that He has been with me my entire life. For example …. The other day I talked about my 5th grade I had a homework assignment – I was required to write a poem and Jesus helped me write the poem. It is the poem that I entitled “WHAT IF” and I now know that this poem is my first religious writing. The poem reads like this: WHAT IF WHAT IF the world were square? What would we all do there? Would we dance and sing and really do our thing? Or would we work and play as we do today? Or would we sit and gaze on all those lazy days? WHAT IF all we said, wasn’t really in our head? Would we be as bold as to grab a hold to all the dreams held fast, where no man has ever passed? WHAT IF all were seen as purple, pink and green? Would purple and green make a really big scene because of pink being able to think that he is just as good as all the others could? Would pink begin to think that all the other colors really weren’t his brothers? Just because he’s a different shade he wasn’t really made for our society and all the piety of our world? This is a timeless poem, written in collaboration with my Father Jesus, who is a timeless entity. I remember when I got to the end of the poem, I was trying to think of a word that rhymed with society – and I could not think of a word. Then the word piety came in my mind – but I had no idea what piety meant. So I went and asked my sister – who was in the 8th or 9th grade –I don’t remember her exact grade – but she didn’t know what the word ‘piety’ meant either, so she told me to go look ‘piety’ up in the dictionary. Sure enough it was a word relevant to my poem and that is how the word ‘piety’ was added to the poem. I know now that it was Jesus that gave me the word ‘piety’ to use in my poem. Another time I remember being in the 5th grade and my self-esteem was on the line. My sister had relaxed my hair and in the process she burned a big bald spot about the size of my hand in the back right side of my head. I was teased by the neighborhood children about that bald spot for months. My sister had the audacity to try to cover it up with a big giant ribbon – I think the ribbon was white and she tied it in a big bow and pinned it with hair pins to the hair in the area above the bald spot, whereby the bow and that tails of the bow hung over the bald spot in an attempt to hide it. Well you could still see the bald spot and I still felt horrible, miserable and ugly. I remember my mother’s male friend, who was truly a father figure to me “Mr. Gilbert.” I remember Mr. Gilbert coming over that day – on the day that I was feeling ugly – and I remember that I had an autograph book – which was something common in those days, you have these little autograph books that you got people to sign in honor of your graduation – which I was graduating from the 5th grade --- at any rate I remember asking Mr. Gilbert to sign my autograph book, and He signed “To the prettiest Glascoe,” (my maiden name) and He gave me a comforting and reassuring hug --- and I tell you that moment had such a positive impact on my life – on my self-esteem for life – and I now know that it was Jesus in that moment – Jesus knew how ugly I was feeling, and as a little girl forming her self-esteem, He knew exactly what I needed --- a hug from my father and words telling me that I was beautiful. I always viewed Mr. Gilbert – my mother’s friend -- as my father – and now I know – it was my Father operating through him to show me the love that a little girl needs from her father at crucial defining points in her life. I want to thank you Jesus for being there for me when I needed you most. I realize now that Jesus has truly been a father to me in every sense of the word. He was there to help me with my homework assignments. He was there in my formative years – at the most crucial times in my life – when my self-esteem was forming – Jesus was there to tell me I was beautiful and that I was loved. He was also there to discipline me in my rebellious years – I remember trying to smoke weed one time– I inhaled once and it liked to burn my nostrils out --- so I never tried it again -- I know that was Jesus too – telling me not to do that – it’s like the parent who catches their child smoking a cigarette and makes them smoke the whole pack (without a reprieve) – it’s a sure fire way to stop kids from smoking cigarettes – we’ve gotten away from effective discipline and that is why ( I think) our society has Columbine shootings. Anyway I am grateful to my Father for loving me and for disciplining me – I am a better person because of it! Thank you Jesus.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:20:07 +0000
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