Father's Day 2009

My bible says a lot about it. In fact the word is used more than twelve hundred times. It is used to refer to a certain person but also to a certain way of living. It is used negatively but more often then not, in a positive way. It’s about a person each of us have. Someone at church yesterday invited everyone to church next Sunday morning for breakfast but only the people who have or have had one need attend.
You’re right, and the word is Father. For those who almost forgot, Sunday is Father’s Day. It’s a good day for most but an emotional day for others. Not all males have been good fathers. I believe that is why God decided that He should be thought of as a Father. He is the father of all fathers. An example if you will, of what a father should be doing, of what to live up to.
We live in a sinful, perverse world and even now our idea and concept of so many things are going through change. When I was a kid, dad went off to work in the morning, did macho things all day and came home tired. He sat down with us for dinner that mom made and proceeded to the livingroom to read the evening Spec while listening to the evening news on CHML am radio. The only thing that changed back then was, a tv replaced the radio in about 1956. We saw dad for about three hours a day until bed time. And we saw him when discipline was to be administered. . .
A number of years ago things changed. Men had to reach out and take hold of their feminine side, whatever that meant. I think it meant you were supposed to learn how to share your feelings and cry once in a while over spilled milk, or something to that effect. More men went to office work and left the “manly” work of steel worker or carpenter or some such job. It was a world that changed. Or did it?
Today we live in a world that is so far removed from those days of our youth. I have been told that few families sit down for supper together. And if they do, they sit on the couch with dinner on their lap, listening to mindless chatter on tv. No more talking and telling each other about the day. And fathers? Just another person in the house to do the jobs no one else wants to or can do. “Dad, can you drive me . . . Dad, can your fix my . . . Hey Dad, can I borrow”. ..
You know, and have the T-shirt to prove it. Mine reads, “Mr. Fix-it, Known also as Grandpa”.
I am so glad God my Father as described in my bible as the same yesterday, today and forever. He is there to talk to, to share with and to give me a hand when things in life are too big for little me.
Happy Father’s Day men. Have a great day and thank your wife and children for giving you opportunity to be the father God intended you to be.
Something to think about
Rob