As is customary, I send you heartfelt messages @ this time every year. This year, I decided to post it on Nairaland(I discovered this site last year) and share the link with you.
Daddy, I have a lot to say to you and the summary of this write-up is to thank you.

Thank you dad, for teaching me that my true father is in heaven and you are only a guardian for me here on earth. Thank you for teaching me to be totally dependent on God and not you for all my needs(of course He supplied my needs through you). Thank you for teaching me the importance of a deep relationship with God, and that studying His word holds the key to a successful and prosperous life here on earth.
Thank you for teaching me that the Bible holds the answer to every life questions I may have @ any stage of my life.
Thank you for teaching me that all I am, and would ever be is deeply rooted in searching out the scriptures.

Daddy, you were very strict with me while growing up; so strict that I actually thought you hated me. You monitored me every way you could and set such high standards for me. It wasn't easy meeting up with your standards but through it all, I learnt the virtues of patience, endurance, hardwork and forgiveness.

Dad, we've had our share of altercations in the past(we still do @ times) and Indeed, a lot of water have passed under the bridge. You could afford to give me anything and everything I wanted but you chose to deprive me of certain luxury. You taught me to posess my own posessions and not depend on your own posession. I didn't understand why you had to, but looking back through the years, I am grateful for how you raised me because I am better off for it.

Daddy, do you remember that I used to be very weak @ heart and feeble minded? It was you who taught me that I couldn't go far in life with those traits of mine. In your own words ''Only the brave and courageous survive in this world, especially in a place like Nigeria''.

Daddy, you are not the perfect father (neither am I the perfect daughter) but you are the best for me and my siblings. As always, my prayer for you is to live long to reap the fruit of your labour on all your children.

Thank you Baami. We love you so much.

Poster,

God bless you. My prayer is that your children will write even better things about you.

Thanks Nashville. Amen to your prayer

Aww hugs! I know what it is like to have a good father. Only if men know how their actions especially can change the course of their children and generations to come. Men will be less selfish and think straight. Being a good husband and father is the best gift you can give yourself. I love my daddy very much though he is late. I still love him scatter.

baby_123: Only if men know how their actions especially can change the course of their children and generations to come. Men will be less selfish and think straight.

This really touched my heart. The only unconditional love I have ever known besides God's love has been my dad's love for me. My father would die for any of his children. I could cry just thinking about him. If my dad was here right now I become a little girl again lol. I could never repay what he has done for me. I thank God for our Fathers. May they live long. Amen.

Sweet! Cheers to amazing Dads!! I love you Dad!

I thought there are no good fathers in Nigeria is the general opinion of females on Nairaland...


@Op,

May your dad prosper and live long to see his children children....

bellong: I thought there are no good fathers in Nigeria is the general opinion of females on Nairaland...


@Op,

May your dad prosper and live long to see his children children....

Amen. Thanks