PRINCESS-less

This is another mountain story about the same mountain, different struggle. This is a story about true words. All of your words are true because you spoke them. Some of our actions are frauds because they don't match our words. If a Dad tells his daughter that he will be there for her birthday and doesn't show up, he's a fraud.

A Dad's words might as well be needles

in his Daughter's heart if  he doesn't "do his words."

 

 "His words are still at his daughter's birthday in the form of a dead weight and a lie."

 

About half way up Algonquin Peak, a young lady told me that her Dad never made her his "Princess." She said he would come, leave a gift and then leave without sharing time. She could care less about his gifts, she wanted to have his time. I wrote these words in my Bible:

 "Princess-less: Any Dad who does not make his daughter into his Princess is Princess-less."

Roxy (gray shirt) appears to be carrying the crew

 on her shoulders on the way up Giant Mountain.

She has a habit of carrying people who need help.

When we reached the top of the mountain, I made some of my customary phone calls bragging about where I was. One of the people I called was a young lady named Roxy. I told her about "Princess-less." It was several weeks later when I realized what fruit had grown from that seed planted through a cell phone on top of a mountain. Roxy wrote a song called" "Princess-less." It was a story about growing up "Dad-less." Her own Dad did the best that he knew how. He's a good man who did not know how to be a good Dad. Like the rest of us, he's getting better with age. I hope my stories will help other young men realize how much fun it is to be a Dad. It's hard, full of mistakes and yet rewarding in an unimaginable way. Roxy's song had a powerful message to Dad's about what a daughter wants in a Dad.

Several weeks after Roxy had written that song, I was asked if Youth With A Purpose could bring some dancers and do the Benediction at a banquet. We have lot's of young people who dance so that was easy. I struggled with the Benediction until I realized that we are to: "Train up a child in the way that they should go." I asked the Director of the event if Roxy could do a musical Benediction which she agreed to. The event was

.

On the day before Father's Day, over 100 men

a daughter tell them what a Dad should be.

called: "A Generation of Men Making a Difference in the Community." Our young people were awesome, especially Roxy. On a day that was reserved to honor men, and on a day before the day reserved to honor father's, a young daughter explained to them: "the way of greater honor." 

  

"Children, teach your parents well!"

 

Today's Wise Saying is taken from Proverbs 23:12.

  Proverbs 23:12

New International Version (NIV)

Saying 12

¹² Apply your heart to instruction
    and your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12

The Message (MSG)

¹² Give yourselves to disciplined instruction;
    open your ears to tested knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹² Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12

King James Version (KJV)

¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Young people can be communicators of great instruction. Wise knowledge comes in many forms. In all situations, the primary question could be: "What can I learn from this circumstance." The key word here is: APPLY. 

• Do you apply what you have learned?
• Do you dismiss wisdom because of the source?
• Do you accept instruction and correction?

Thanks for your time. Go do something nice for somebody.

Jesus loves you and so do we.