Good Intentions

I wish you knew all the good stuff that I intended to say every week during the sermon. It never fails, right after the conclusion it hits me what I left out. Sunday our focus was on marriage. The statistics are not good. They are not much different for the community of faith and that is alarming. If you have daughters like I do it is a scary thought to think about a wedding. To think about some boy who will drive off with your little girl. Ouch! My prayer is that they will choose someone who loves and fears God. If he doesn't fear God now, he probably won't when they are married. And second, I hope they find one that will love them and fear me.

Sunday, I intended to tell you about what I hear fathers telling their daughters. They say, " Go to college." "Choose a good major and be sure you graduate." Now the part that is sometimes assumed and sometimes even verbalized is - "You will need to have something you can fall back on." The idea - just in case this idiot that you are seeing doesn't keep his word! I guess considering the stats that is probably good advice. I wish we would just add, "Choose a good man, someone that will help you in your walk with God." "Someone you can fall back on!"

Wow! Soon school will be out and I will have one daughter that is a junior and one that will be a freshman in high school. I knew it would go by fast, I just didn’t get how fast - fast is. The stuff about leaving things out of sermons is quite aggravating. But, there is always next week. It just dawned on me I haven't talked to my girls about marriage. I intended to! It was in my notes. I'll tell them next week!

April 22, 2009