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I find it amazing how much more stressed out I feel about the task of raising a daughter than I did with Connor. The other day a friend of ours stopped by and shared a devotion with me and it was as if she were reading my mind. I'll share a portion of it with you:
"I remember when I first felt the love of God. I was at a turning point in my life, sort of: my daughter was a baby and it had suddenly struck me that I had a little girl in my life that I was going to have to teach how to be a woman. Somehow this seemed to be much more daunting that raising a boy. I felt totally inadequate to the task and took the opportunity to give myself a hard time about how I had lived my life to that point. Does it not seem to be easier to see the sin in oneself when one has to think about telling one's children about it someday? Thus one night, I sat in the dark, praying and asking God how on Earth I was going to be a good example for this child."
This passage spoke to me, because it is exactly how I feel. I am so overwhelmed at the task at hand of raising this beautiful little girl to become a beautiful, woman who is respectful of herself and others. I look at her, and see this angel and think about how precious and wonderful she is and I pray that I will never let her down and that she grows up knowing love and knowing the beauty inside her that is my little girl.

Posted by Cassie on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 3:56 PM | Permalink