Back to being Daddy's Girl

Of late, I’ve been thinking about
family.. I guess also because CNY was just round the corner. I was just talking
to Praise this afternoon that going on my China was such a good break because
on that trip, I felt like a kid again.

I had a Daddy
that I knew would take care of things, and he did. From flights, to accommodation
and fighting to get the best accommodation, to food, to tours… Dad took care of it all. And I must say, it was such
a great feeling to have.. to be taken care of. I honestly felt like a kid
again.. and felt so safe! No matter that I’ve just turned 27, with my daddy, I’ll
always feel like a kid daughter, being safe and knowing that he will take care
of things. It was such a break, because since graduating and starting work, I’ve
been in the position of taking care of things and needing to organize arrange
things, even for my own life. But for the last 7-8 days, it just felt like I went
back to the fold of my Dad.. no
worries, because Dad is here.

He had
the resources to give us what we need, and not only that, Dad didn’t just provide us with what we needed, he
gave us the best he could afford. Dad
picked 4, 5 star accommodation, not because we were the prissy sort, but because those were the ones who had
heaters that were ample for tropical dwellers like us. On 2 separate nights that
we were so cold that we couldn’t sleep, the next day led a hunt for the
asccomodation that had proper heating. In fact, because we had to eat so much
of the foreign food which was very different from Singaporean tastes, my father
actually took us to the buffet of the best hotel in Lijiang so that we could
have a good meal (though I must say the food standards are still very different
there as compared to SG). At night when we had time to roam on our own, dad
would suggest a place to eat or ask us what we feel like eating or doing… just,
felt like kids again. As a parent that loved his children, he gave us a choice,
deferred to our choices for as long as it didn’t harm us, he wanted us to have
what we wanted.

On our last night in China over
dinner, my stepmum commented that the way Dad
treats us is nothing less than how he treats his clients when he brings them
out, to give them the best. And she mentioned that my dad would often tell her
when they were at a certain place, that he’ll bring “wenxing and wenyu (gary and my Chinese names)
to this place some day.” It touched me that though my dad was away so much the
last year on business trips, that he would think of us.

It has dawned on me that just as
my father has not withheld anything good from us, and would give us not just
what we needed but also wanted (where it’d bring no harm), how much more so God
our Father is with us. Which brings to mind Matthew 7:11 " If you,then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good
gifts to those who ask him!"

How true it is! Which begs me to
think… the security that I felt on this trip with my dad, do I feel the same of
God our Father? Honestly, I  sometimes I forget that my Father in Heaven loves me
more than my earthly father… and so there are moments that I panic and start
trying to fight for myself and figure out things myself. If only I would be consistently aware that God is
able, willing to give us more than I even ask for or imagine and that He is a loving Father!