Our "Daddy"
As I was growing up, I called my earthly father, “Dad.” It seemed to me that only my friends who had a very special relationship with their father called them “Daddy.” I never called mine “Daddy.” I was not very close to him. The first time I realized this was when I watched the movie “The Little Mermaid” with my children. At the end of the movie, the little mermaid says to her father, “I love you Daddy!” I sobbed uncontrollably. My father had passed away a few months earlier, and I realized I would never have a relationship with him where I would call him “Daddy.” A few years later, a friend of mine and I were discussing all the words in the Bible for God. One of those is “Abba”. Abba means “father” or, as she liked to say, “Daddy.” When she talked about God being our Daddy who would hold us on his lap when we needed comforting, the tears, again, began to pour down my face. God is my Daddy. Our earthly fathers are not pe...