Precious Thoughts of a Yahkid...: A Tribute to All Daughters...

Monday, March 14, 2005

A Tribute to All Daughters...

Every home should have a daughter,

for there's nothing like a girl

To keep the world around her

in one continuous whirl.

From the moment she arrives on earth,

and on through womanhood,

A daughter is a female

who is seldom understood.

One minute she is laughing,

the next she starts to cry,

Man can't understand her

and there's just no use to try.

She is soft and sweet and cuddly,

but she's also wise and smart,

She's a wondrous combination

of a mind and brain and heart.

And even in her baby days

she's just a born coquette,

And everything she really wants

she manages to get.

For even at a tender age

she uses all her wiles

And she can melt the hardest heart

with the sunshine of her smiles.

She starts out as a rosebud

with her beauty unrevealed,

Then through a happy childhood

her petals are unsealed.

She's soon a sweet girl graduate,

and then a blushing bride,

And then a lovely woman

as the rosebud oepns wide.

And some day in the future,

if it be God's gracious will,

She, too, will be a Mother

and know that reverend thrill.

That comes to every Mother

whose heart is filled with love

When she beholds the "angel"

that God sent her from above.

And there would be no life at all

in this world or the other

Without a darling daughter

who, in turn, becomes a Mother!

-Helen Steiner Rice

This is a tribute to all the women who attended the Women of Worth Conference 2005 at DUMC on Sunday & Monday. Learning how to appreciate womanhood and knowing the role that women play in the Father's eyes. I've been blessed by so many of you and one entry is just not enough to sum up all the wondrous things you have blessed me. As we celebrate womanhood, I'd like to say a big thank you to all of you, women! I've been giving an opportunity to bless the women through the Women of Worth Conference. There were 10 men who came together and spent 7 hours preparing 410 roses for all the women at the conference. We ended about 1.30am. We did everything from cutting and trimming the stock and leaves, dethorning, wrapping the aluminium foil with wet cotton, tying the ribbon and the card together and finally presenting the flowers to the ladies on Monday at the end of the conference. Here are some pictures from our escapade!