Dwayne ONeil asked:
Young and old children alike will do just about anything to stall bedtime. I really think that children are born as pros at that. I recently heard an interview with a Christian singer and writer Steven Curtis Chapman. He wrote a song called ‘Cinderella’. The song brings me to tears almost every time, because it focuses on his little girls.
Just like my little girls, they love to play and dress up as princesses. They love to dance. The day Steven wrote that song, he was in a hurry to put his girls to bed, because he had work to do. His girls were in no hurry. They did what little girls do. They were playing make believe as they were supposed to get ready for bed. Steven, like my self when I have ‘things to do’ got frustrated and finely did get them to bed…much later then he had planned.
He got down in his office and realized that someday those little girls were going to leave. They will grow up and marry and he won’t have these precious moments he has no to enjoy and edify them. That night he wrote the song ‘Cinderella’.
The song is about the stages in a girl’s life. She desperately wants dad to be there every step of the way. The song revolves around the little girl learning how to dance. Asking dad to dance…as a little girl, a teenager going to her first prom and a young lady just about to be married.
About a year ago I remember one Sunday. We were at church. Services were about to start. I don’t know why but I happened to look at my older daughter, at the time she was likely 10 years old but she is SO DARN pretty. Anyway a thought came to mind, some day, some guy will love that little as much as me…I started to cry, because it is hard for me to imagine that.
Jack
Young and old children alike will do just about anything to stall bedtime. I really think that children are born as pros at that. I recently heard an interview with a Christian singer and writer Steven Curtis Chapman. He wrote a song called ‘Cinderella’. The song brings me to tears almost every time, because it focuses on his little girls.
Just like my little girls, they love to play and dress up as princesses. They love to dance. The day Steven wrote that song, he was in a hurry to put his girls to bed, because he had work to do. His girls were in no hurry. They did what little girls do. They were playing make believe as they were supposed to get ready for bed. Steven, like my self when I have ‘things to do’ got frustrated and finely did get them to bed…much later then he had planned.
He got down in his office and realized that someday those little girls were going to leave. They will grow up and marry and he won’t have these precious moments he has no to enjoy and edify them. That night he wrote the song ‘Cinderella’.
The song is about the stages in a girl’s life. She desperately wants dad to be there every step of the way. The song revolves around the little girl learning how to dance. Asking dad to dance…as a little girl, a teenager going to her first prom and a young lady just about to be married.
About a year ago I remember one Sunday. We were at church. Services were about to start. I don’t know why but I happened to look at my older daughter, at the time she was likely 10 years old but she is SO DARN pretty. Anyway a thought came to mind, some day, some guy will love that little as much as me…I started to cry, because it is hard for me to imagine that.
Jack