Going On Four(teen)
A year ago I wrote this for Kenley, and a year later I hope the same things.
"Our favorite daughter is turning three tomorrow and I would say I can't believe she's growing up so fast.... but I feel like she's been two for ten years now. Kenley is a force to be reckoned with and it's a toss up if that's a good or a bad thing on particular days. As a parent I'm clinging to the idea that it'll be a good thing as she ages. I hope that she grows into a passionate woman that delights in who God created her to be and has the confidence to know her worth in God and not in man. I hope that she uses her strong voice to speak against injustice and hatred, and to proclaim biblical truth and not worldly truth. I hope that her empathy will be cultivated into something that she will share with those she doesn't know, as well as her family. I hope that her patience and understanding will develop with age into an almost fortune cookie kind of way. I hope that she will forever see the beauty that she has inside and out that God sees her with and not be defined by the way the world will try to conform her into their definition of beauty. I hope that she continues to see the world with a growing curiosity and fearlessness in a pursuit of that curiosity. I hope that her age or sex will not cause her to fear to try something in life and instead push the boundaries that the world will try to restrain her with. I hope the world for her.
"Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." - Proverbs 19:20-21"
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