Transparent moment: Father's Day is always a difficult one for me (as I know it is for a lot of people) because my relationship with my father isn't the best. We've never really had a relationship at all, to be honest. It's something I've always wanted, though. Good Father Daughter relationships are ones that I've envied, and it used to hurt a lot when I'd witness the really great ones. I've prayed on and off again about God restoring my relationship with my father or at leas evening garments of the formal style ... t heal my heart to the place where I could honor and respect him from a distance. I didn't want to feel that bitterness anymore.

Recently, I've been praying about that again. For many reasons. Being in a new relationship, wanting to be completely free from any bitterness, wanting healing and deliverance from negative views about men---all of the things that having daddy issues at the root that has caused me to not live life in complete freedom.

I talked to my father on Father's Day. He told me how I was the only one of his children to reach out to him. We talked about my career and my music and how God has really started to birth a ministry within me. At the end of our brief conversation, he told me (while fighting getting choked up) that he was proud of me and that he loved me.

I know this is just the beginning. If you ever wondered if God could heal and restore what is broken, know that He can and He will.

Life is too short to stay hurt.