I won’t ever tell my daughter that she can’t do something.

I won’t ever tell her she’s not good enough.

I won’t ever tell her how to live her life.

But I will show her how to live her life.

I will show her the happiness that comes with true love.

I will show her how to live a fulfilling life with Christ.

I will show her that being submissive to a loving, God-honoring husband is beautiful.

I will show her that raising her children to love Christ, and follow Him is rewarding, and that it is the best job in the world.

I want her to see through my life the things I want her to know. I want her to be guided by my actions. I want to show her that I am happy.

I am happy in my life, and in my ways.

We live in a world that demands us to be stronger, better and more hardworking than men. I want my daughter to grow up knowing that she can be strong in her marriage. She can live a better life through Christ, and be a hardworking mother, wife, and friend.

I won’t tell my daughter she can’t be an engineer. I won’t tell her she can’t have any career she wants. But I will ask her if she is happy, if she is enjoying herself. I want her to be passionate, caring and kind.

We need to stop asking our daughters to be better than men. I don’t see the future young women in America gaining anything from the world if we don’t begin to teach them to love the Lord, and their future husbands, if we don’t show them how a woman of God presents herself. If we don’t show the sacrifices and compromises that we deal with every day, then the young women will grow up unable to work through these tough situations.

I will tell her she needs to be happy. In a world that demands success, happiness is usually thrown out. In a world focused on independence, we’ve lost the togetherness of love.

I want her to know she is loved. I want her to know she will be cared for.

I want her to know that although the world isn’t perfect, it is beautiful.

To be a woman in our world may be hard, that a woman should be better, more successful, more beautiful, and more of everything. But that isn’t true. My daughter doesn’t have to be better than anyone. She doesn’t have to be perfect.

She just has to be happy.