Daughters Bake Cookies

I don’t remember when I started giving this sage advice. I know it was some time when my children were growing up. A friend told me they were having a baby and it was going to be a girl. I congratulated him and told him, “One of the great things about having a girl is that daughters bake cookies!”

There is a special bond between a daughter and a daddy. My daughters spend time with me and I enjoy every moment. They come to me to talk about books we read and things we do. They let me drive them around town while they shop with their mother. I especially like it when they bake me cookies. I like the cookies not only for the flavor and pleasure. I like them for the love that I know went into them. I like them because they taste just like the cookies their mother makes.

Baking cookies is not a skill they were given at birth. They learned to bake cookies from their mother. And she learned to bake cookies from her mother. Baking cookies is not the only skill passed down from mother to daughter. It is not even the only one dads get to appreciate. It is inherently one of the greatest gifts of motherhood that they pass on valuable traits to their daughters and sons. It is the character even more than the cooking that we inherit from our mothers. It is faith more than food that becomes a lasting legacy.

In Titus 2:3-4, Paul reminds Titus that older women should, “…teach what is good, and so train the young women…” When I think of mother’s day I have so much to be thankful for. I remember my mother and how she taught me to pray. I think of my mother in law who, in addition to being an awesome cook, taught her daughter generosity and hospitality that she has passed on to our children.

These are just a few of the things that Joyce and I have learned from our mothers that we see in our children and will continue to see in our grandchildren. Happy Mother’s Day. Thank you, Moms, for all you do, all you are, and the legacy of faith that you pass on to all of us. And, thanks for teaching your daughters how to bake cookies.
 Bro. Robin