Father Can You Hear Me

As I place my hands to the keys, I think of the love that every child has for their father especially little girls. I know that my daddy was my first love. I also as small as I was remember the letters he wrote and the tapes he sent when he was off fighting in the war. Daddy's Home by the Delfonics, I smile now because that's when music had real meaning. I used to make my mama play it all the time.

I am sadden now though, not because my daddy is gone, but for all the homes where the father is absent by choice. For all the little girls and boys who will have dysfunctional relationships as a result of fathers who can't separate the relationship with the kids, from the relationship with the moms. I am angered that at some point these two people looked passed all the issues long enough to lay down and produce these children as if they asked to be here. Mothers who use the children as pawns in your game stop it's emotional abuse. God is frowning on it. Daddy remember how you treat your little girl is how she expects others to treat her. If you give her left over time and affection she gets in jacked up relationships expecting and accepting the same.

So now I petition my Daddy in heaven and I say Father Can You hear me? A divine intervention is needed right away. To save our children our future, to stop this cycle of abandonment, and bad relationships. Girls going from man to man or in this day to woman, looking for the love and attention that she should have been given by her own daddy. For the young boy or man who is so determined not to be his own father, that he turns into him times 5. Even he searches for his dad's love and acceptance in his relationships giving us a an entirely new man, the absentee father, the gangster boo, the down low man and the low down man. All because Daddy was not home, or if he was there he was merely existing. So my hat is off to all the father's who stayed, to all the father's who stepped in and took the place of the absent one.

I beseech you to recognize that whether or not your dad was there or not, know that you have a Father who will never leave you nor forsake you, one who can say this when you finally accept Him for who He is:

You're my love you're my angel
You're the girl of my dreams
I'd like to thank you for waiting patiently
Daddy's home your daddy's home to stay
How I've waited for this moment
To be by your side
Your best friend wrote and told me
You had teardrops in your eyes
Daddy's home your daddy's home to stay

Now don't get it twisted guys those are the words of the Delfonics, but imagine God saying that to you, you are my son my child with whom I am well pleased. The good thing is with this Father nobody has to tell Him when you are sad, or have tears in your eyes, you see He knows all about you. He knows what's in it you and where you are headed if you just let Him lead.

I ask each of you who have not yet embraced the most important Father/son, Father/daughter relationship to say these words with me, and if you know the song, then tell Tamela Mannm you have it from here:

Father can you hear me
We need your love today
I know that you are listening
you hear men everyday
Father please hear us
and we will be ok
father we need you to heal families today

Father can you hear me
I'm calling on your name
Not budda nor muhammed
but it's jesus we cry out loud
Father just forgive us
Hear us when we say
We'll give ya, give ya, give you everything our lifes and souls today

Father you know we need it
I've never seen so much pain
We have the faith for now
Your victory we will gain
father you know we mean it
there's no more heart of stone
were ready for your power
now the sin is gone

My prayer is this, Daddy I know you can hear me, I am not questioning that, so today I declare and decree that generational curses are broken, that the ones you have chosen to break them take the mantle and run on even when it gets hard. I decree and declare that dysfunction is replaced with calm and love, that families are restored and healing has taken place. I pray that men take their rightful place as heads of homes, and mothers bow out gracefully and let them be men. That men encourage their sons, and validate their daughters. I thank you in advance that in this season that earthly fathers lead their children to you our heavenly Father and we can hear you say you are my child in whom I am well pleased.

Shon Garner Cole