LETTER TO MY PRINCESS [a father's love for his daughter] ***TRUE STORY***
I love you, Shakirah Aneesah Shakir. Your name means so much and you are destined to live those three names as you bless this world with your presence. In a late night dream in 1997, your name came to me and I wrote about in a song "I Believe In You." SHAKIRAH [a female variation of the word, 'Shakir'] means: 'Thankful to God.' Your middle name, ANEESAH means 'one who has compassion for others' and your last name SHAKIR means 'Thankful to God'. Seven years after you were conceived in my mind, you were conceived in this world's reality. Unfortunately, the devil comes to kill, steal and destroy and I must admit, that the devil used your own mother in his attempt to get to you. Two months into your conception, your mother made an appointment to have you aborted. As Christians and members of one of the greatest churches in Boston, I reminded her that this was not what we do and that if she believes you didn't belong here, that she should