Just returned from Los Angeles to spend a few days with my daughter. It was a really great time. It wasn't perfect as we still have communication problems. She goes to a prestigious school, is 21 and thinks she knows it all! I have a hard time keeping my opinions to myself and have a tendency to want to "over manage" her life!
Anyways for the most part it was a really nice visit. I miss her tremendously. She has been in LA for almost 4 years now and this was the first summer she didn't come home. I pretty much raised her and my youngest son by myself. It was tough for all of us after their mother left, but I was so thankful I had the opportunity. Her brother graduated from high school this year and has moved out and is now going to college himself. It's really hard sometimes having invested so much of my time and passion into raising them, and then having to release them!! Well anyways the week in LA was fun. We went to a Phil Wickham concert and it was amazing. I have never been a huge fan of christian music, but this concert was really amazing for me. It was so moving to sit in a crowd of around 500 mostly young people who were worshipping the Lord. Got to attend a chapel at the university, and went to her church New City Church which was really nice. So I just need to be thankful for how's she's doing. At 21, she is far far ahead of where I was at that age. I remember dropping her off her freshman year and having communion the night I departed the campus. I received a clear message from God that night that she would be okay and I didn't need to worry, so I guess I just need to trust that and not start worrying to much now! It was alot of fun to just have dinner with her and hang out in my hotel room. God bless you girl! Daddy loves you!
