A Thank You note to my Father

Dear Father,

I just want to write you a note to thank you for creating me. Thank you so much for creating me more than 40 years ago.

Thank you that I was born into my lovely parents’ family. Deep in my heart, I know that they have done their best in raising me. I am sure I have given them plenty of heartaches, headaches, and problems, yet they still love me just as the day that I was born. My dad keeps telling me how my big round eyes with long lashes made them a bit crazier about me then my other siblings.

Thank you for giving me lovely siblings who are always so supportive in everything that I do. Thank you that I was born in the middle so that I was given lots of room to grow and to be myself. Thank you for giving me two most precious, loving and smart nephews. Thank you that my sister and my brother-in-law allow me to love them as my own sons - minus the diapers, nursing, yelling, disciplining, and etc. Thank you for giving me cousins, uncles, aunties, grandparents and other relatives who are always so loving and encouraging to me.

Thank you for being with me for the past 40 years. You have been watching every step I took and you have been lovingly protecting me. So many times, you have sheltered me from danger and held me back when I wanted to experience danger. Your love, grace, loving kindness, passion, faithfulness, patience, mercy, goodness, and so much more have lavished upon me. I am just in awe when I think about how good you are to me.

Thank you for giving me Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for me. I do not deserve your love yet you have loved me before I was even born. Thank you for forgiving my sins against you. Thank you, Father, for Jesus’ love for me.

I have spent the 1st 20 years of my life trying to figure out who I am. I have spent the 2nd 20 years of my life living for myself. Now, I would like to live the 3rd and perhaps even the 4th 20 years of my life just for you, if it pleases you. Dad told me that my other Chinese name is “Praise” and I would like to do just that for you. I would like to praise your name and worship you all the days of my life.
Your grace has kept me alive. You could have taken me back to your bosoms when I was less than one month old but you didn’t. It is your will that I am still living.

So, Father, if it pleases you, I would like to live for you from now on. I would like to serve you full-time and keeping myself busy with you and for you. Father, you know what my needs are and I believe that you will provide those needs to me according to your time and will. I won’t be constantly bugging you about them if you haven’t put them in my heart/head first. Please be merciful to me whenever I run out of steam, get antsy or becoming an emotional wreck.

That’s all, just a simple thank you note to you to let you know that I love you. I am looking forward to see what other amazing things you have predestined for me. Thank you for being You. Thank you again for your love, grace and mercy coz you know how much I need them.

Your daughter,