Princesses

Miss Adventure

"I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. All of us. Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he? "

I love this quote from the movie, "A Little Princess"; such a beautiful movie and such a beautiful story of a daughter and her father. I rarely ever remember movie quotes but this particular one has stayed with me for years after I viewed the movie. I think because I relate well with the daughter in the movie. I am incredibly grateful to have a father in my own life who made me always feel like I was his princess. I also had a grandfather that did the same for me. We all need people in our lives who make us feel special. I think as women, we especially need that father figure in our lives to do that as well. I am so blessed to have had two.

This is bittersweet for me since my grandfather passed away this last week. It's incredibly sad to think that one of the two men who has treasured me the most in this life is no longer here on earth to do that. Even in the last few years when his health has been steadily declining, he still made me feel like I was so special and that I made his day by just being there. It didn't matter how I looked, what kinds of witty things I had to say, how old I was - because even being a woman past thirty, I still was his little girl.

I hope and pray that I have many many more years with my father. It is probably because I had such good men in my life that I didn't have a need to run to whatever man showed up ready to take advantage of a hurting woman and then try using them to fill that place in my heart that longs to be treasured like a princess. Too many women out there try filling that lonely, insecure place in their hearts with men that don't deserve their time of day. They consistently run to the wrong place for comfort and reassurance and then come up empty and broken.

I am one of the lucky ones to have had such a wonderful father, and I realize that many women did not have that in their lives. Not only that, no matter how wonderful of a man you may have in your life, they are human and will let you down at some point. There is a Father out there waiting to fill that void and can truly make you a princess - a daughter of the King.

Act like a princess worthy of that King. Believe you are a princess, even if you real father never told you that.