Lessons from a New Dad…Part 1

I recently became a Dad…and it’s the most AMAZING thing ever!  I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty much runnin’ on Adrenaline (Canadian Border Patrol) due to the lack of sleep…but it’s worth it!  She is so adorable and beautiful and all I want to do is kiss her all day long!  It’s crazy how your perspective changes the moment you see that little life come into the world.  I’m re-learning so many lessons from being a dad…so I thought I’d share a few with ya’ll.

I love my daughter so much…I mean I LOVE her BIG TIME!!  And the crazy thing about that is I loved her like that from the very second I saw her.  I’ve never met her.  I don’t really know who she is or who she’ll become yet.  I’ve never had to depend on her.  She’s never bought me any presents or done me any favors.  In fact, she’s kinda like the worst friend ever…all she does is take from me, she falls asleep when I’m trying to talk with her, she cries and wakes me up at all hours of the night, she’s slapped me in the face and kicked me in the throat numerous times, she farts on me…Wow she actually sounds like a College Roommate I had!  But I don’t care, I love her regardless and all I want to do is spend time with her.  Guess what…God is the same with us.  He created each and every one of us and He loves us more than we could ever imagine!  Just think about who loves you the most in life…then try to wrap your mind around this… God loves you INFINITELY more than that and He loves in a PERFECT way.  And just like me, all he wants to do is spend time with His children.  He wants us to spend time with Him…to have a relationship with Him.

I cannot tell you the joy it brings me to hold my little girl, look into her eyes, hold her hand with my pinky, kiss her on the forehead, and tell her I love her.  I know it’s hard to believe and understand…it is for me too…but now that I’m a Dad, I can understand it more than I’ve ever been able to before…

God feels that exact same joy with us…and He wants to do the exact same thing…to “hold” us and show us just how much He Loves us!