Things my father taught me

In many ways, I am my father's daughter. I say that because I find myself naturally exhibiting many of his traits; much more than my mother's. I usually think of 2 things my father taught me that have served me well throughout my life: 1. learn to type: you can always get a job, and 2. never write anything you don't want printed on the front page of the newspaper. Those are two very good rules. I have made a living with my ability to type; of course, converting it to wordprocessing skills and other software skills on a computer. I could always feed my children, if need be, with that skill. And by being very judicious in my writing, I have stayed out of a lot of trouble. Many people should take a lesson from that and also apply it to their mouths. However, today, I also think of a third thing, most important, that my father said to me. He only said it once. At the time, it seemed silly and off the subject, but it really was the essence of our conversation. I was a teenager at the time, and my father and I were talking about "finding myself", as teenagers do. I was very well grounded already, mind you, in who I was, but I was looking at all the things I was interested in and what direction to take in life. There were so many choices. My father said simply, " That's an easy one. You are a child of the King." Of course, he was right. But I already knew that. I wasn't talking about the deepest part of me. I was talking about the easier questions. But being a child of the King is the best answer. It says everything. It says who our Father is, and where we are going. So many today do not have this knowledge. They are wandering, looking here and there, trying this and that. How foolish. I used to sometimes wish I had some terrible thing that I had overcome to write about in my testimony. But I didn't. I was saved when I was 10 years old. I was blessed with learning who I was at such an early age, I didn't have to wander and search, look all over the place. His hand was on me all along. And it didn't really matter which path I chose. He was guiding me. So today, still, I taste many things. I am interested in lots of different things. And you know what? He is still guiding me. I am still His child. And my earthly father taught me three VERY important things.