Still remember the story of the Sleeping Beauty? A wicked fairy casted an enchantment on princess Aurora at the celebration of the princess's birth that she'll prick her finger on a spindle upon adulthood and die. A kind fairy, though unable to reverse the spell, twitched the wicked enchantment such that princess Aurora would fall into a deep sleep instead. Upon the kiss of a prince, she will then wake up from the deep slumber. To protect his beloved daughter, the king ordered all spindles in the kingdom to be destroyed.

Just like the king, all fathers want to protect their daughters. Many of us are like the girl who thinks she's grown up enough to know what she's doing and who wants to try everything, but in fact, does not know the danger and the peril that lurks in that world out there. The daddies, in their attempts to protect their little girls, forbid them to even go near any of these 'dangers'; some daddies, to the extent of being overprotective.

Daddies, i feel, are God's protection for us. A certain authority who sets boundaries for us so that we are kept from the seemingly fresher fields acoss the fence. Thank God for daddies. (:

Just a thought though, would princess Aurora still fall prey to the spindle; would she still prick her finger on the spindle, had she been taught what a spindle looks like and what a spindle actually is?