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CHAPTER 1
Hi, my name is Missy, but sometimes my mom calls me Toots Punkin', Peanut, or Squirty McTurty. I'm adopted. I like to swim, and I love cheese sticks!
For as long as I can remember, it's just been me and Mommy and Cookie the Wonder Dog living at our house.
I always thought our family was perfect, until one day in kindergarten, George asked me a question.
"Who's your daddy?"
I thought about it a minute and said, "I don't have one." But George made a scrunchy face and tilted his head to one side like he was confused.
"But I thought everybody has a daddy! Who plays soccer with you and drives you to school and makes pancakes for you?"
Then the teacher told us to stop talking so I just put my head down and started coloring.
That afternoon when Mommy picked me up from school, I told her about George's question. She put her chin in her hand, which is what she does when she's thinking real hard, and drove us to the park near my school. When we reached the pond, she turned around and said. "Come here baby," and let me sit in her lap.
Mommy + me
After she played with my hair for a few minutes — which makes me feel happy and safe and sleepy all at the same time — she said, "Honey, you actually do have a Daddy, and His name is Daddy God. He knew you before you were born, and He loves you more than all the stars in the sky."
I thought about that on the way to the grocery store. Then I asked Mommy, "If God is my Daddy, how come He doesn't drive me to school or teach me to play soccer or make me pancakes like George's daddy?"
She responded, "Well sweetie. Daddy God is invisible, so we can't see Him the way we can see human daddies with skin. And even though Daddy God doesn't drive a car, coach soccer or make pancakes. He did create the whole wide world and He is always with you and He will never, never leave you and will never, ever stop loving you."
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Excerpted from "Who's Your Daddy?"
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Copyright © 2018 Lisa Harper.
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