Father's heart

I want to share with you an email from Kenny. Hope you don't mind sharing this with other people.

"I wanted to share an experience I just had with my daughter Ashley. Yeah, she's already 100 days old and looking forward to meeting you. Well, I took her for her first immunization shots about a month ago. It was so agonizing for me as a father to imagine the pain she would helplessly go through. As much as I knew that this experience was a necessary one, I also knew that the pain she would go through would be unbearably tough for me. It became all the tougher knowing that I would have to be the one to hold her down as the doctor administered the shots. As the doctor pierced her infant skin, Ashley wrenched out a cry and turned her teary eyes to me as if to say, "Why are you letting them do this to me?"

I'll tell you Keith. I broke into tears right at the moment. I wished I could tell her that it was all for her, but she wouldn't even understand. As much pain as she was going through, my pain was even deeper. The only consoling thought was that I knew my child would be stronger after this experience. Ashley might have a vague idea that her daddy loves her, but my love for her surpasses all her imagination.

Keith, God loves you so much that He needed to guide you through this experience so you would be that much stronger afterwards. You may have a vague idea that your Heavenly Daddy loves you, but His love for your surpasses your wildest imagination.

I'll leave you with my favorit A.W. Tozer quote, "He whome God will use greatly, He will hurt deeply."