To the Mothers Raising Daughters With Father Wounds
If your daughter’s tone feels sharp, her walls seem high, or her independence feels like rejection breathe — you’re not failing!
You’re just dealing with a heart that learned too early how to protect itself.
She’s not always angry at you — she’s wrestling with the echoes of a father who wasn’t there, or who was there — but didn’t see her.
She’s testing love to see if it will stay.
You may feel helpless when she shuts you out, but your consistency is healing her more than you know.
Every time you choose patience over pride, gentleness over argument, and prayer over panic you are re-teaching her what safe love feels like.
Keep loving her, not with control, but with steady grace.
Keep praying over her identity, not just her behavior.
God is re-fathering her through your mothering.
The same God who says, “I will not leave you as orphans” (John 14:18) is watching over both of you.
Your tears are not wasted they are watering the soil where her healing will bloom.
She may not say it yet, but she feels your prayers.
One day she’ll look back and realize you were the bridge that carried her from rejection to Restoration.
“I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:18.
Shalom
~ Syreeta Thomas
PRAISE THE LORD AND THANK YOU JESUS! SO RELEVANT AND A NOW WORD FROM THE HEART OF THE FATHER! I SO RECEIVE AND PRAYING THAT I HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO PASS THE TEST! YES – THIS HIT HOME FOR ME: “She’s not always angry at you — she’s wrestling with the echoes of a father who wasn’t there, or who was there — but didn’t see her.” THANKING THE LORD FOR NO MORE RESENTMENT AND NO MORE REJECTION FROM HER FATHER- I AM BELIEVING THAT EVEN NOW-TODAY- SHE IS ‘NOW LOOKING back and realize you were the bridge that carried her from rejection to Restoration!”& I DECREE BEAUTY FOR ASHES FOR ALL OF US AS WE ARE WALKING INTO OUR NEW BEGINNING in THIS MONTH AND SEASON in 2025- I ALSO DECREE & RECEIVE RECONCILIATION, RESTORATION & RECOMPENSE- AS ALL THINGS ARE FALLING IN PLEASANT PLACES NOW- & THAT SHE, I & HER FATHER NOW KNOWS THAT LOVE IS HERE TO STAY‼️☝ BLESS YOU WOMAN OF GOD❣️
Thankyou this is my daughter
Amazing.. thank you.
Thank you so much, Syreeta. What a powerful needed teaching!Blessings ❤️