Choose Your Parents Wisely

/Fathers be good to your daughters/Daughters will love like you do/ *

Those infamous words John Mayer loves to croon, tonight they press against my chest, burning to be answered. "How will you love?" I think is the question their letters ask, if only we could hear beyond the words. 

"Chose your parents wisely!"**

My human bio professor loves to tease us with this caution against diseases inherited from family. She quips referring to genetics, and I am always reminded of John Mayer's soft voice asking me, "How will you love like He does?" 

/Now we are soaked in all the grace that we've been given/Unchained from all that we have done/***

As these words float through my ears I am again reminded, I am the product of my Father, yes, my Father who is above all. The One who was from the beginning, who is today, and who will forever Be. He is the One I long to love, the one who is wildly in love with me, the One I seek to be like in this thing called Love. If I could choose my parents, I would always choose Him; because He has always chosen me. 

Again my heart shall sing, I am my Father's daughter; like Him I want to be. 

I am my Daddy's girl; HIs face in mine I want to see.

A Daughter of The King.

*Daughters by John Mayer

** (Van der Werff, Pam. 2012)

*** Alive by All Sons & Daughters