Father's Day
To all you fathers out there, happy father's day! I hope you have a wonderful day.
It was my second week speaking this Sunday and I took a break from our Wisdom for Dummies series on Proverbs to talk about fathers.
This is a subject I am passionate about. I have been a bad father in my life, and I have learned the importance of a father and am working to make myself a better father. It's all a learning experience, but we all need to take the time to review where we are and what we are doing so we can do it better and do it right.
Today, I had the opportunity to thank my father for some of the good things he passed on to me. his integrity certainly is a big one. I also had a chance to tell fathers how important their job is. It doesn't just start and end with them but generations of men are being formed by what these men are doing right now...just amazing to me how much impact we have on our sons and daughters.
A lot of time, we just don't think about it and hope kids raise themselves sometimes, but fatherhood is a deliberate action. We have to actually do fatherhood. It didn't end when we donated genetic materiel, it only started. My research for today's message showed me that girls tend to marry men like dad and boys tend to treat their wives like their dad treated mom.
I know a lot of folk weren't happy to hear that. Some people who have gone through divorce and are raising their children on their own and some folks whose kids are grown and gone in particular felt trapped when they heard this, but the important part is the word tend. Certainly, there's a good chance our children will make the same mistakes we did, but if we are willing to swallow our pride and humble ourselves and talk to our children telling them our fears and where we messed up and hoped we could have done better, we have a chance to help them through these difficult times and break the cycle.
It was my second week speaking this Sunday and I took a break from our Wisdom for Dummies series on Proverbs to talk about fathers.
This is a subject I am passionate about. I have been a bad father in my life, and I have learned the importance of a father and am working to make myself a better father. It's all a learning experience, but we all need to take the time to review where we are and what we are doing so we can do it better and do it right.
Today, I had the opportunity to thank my father for some of the good things he passed on to me. his integrity certainly is a big one. I also had a chance to tell fathers how important their job is. It doesn't just start and end with them but generations of men are being formed by what these men are doing right now...just amazing to me how much impact we have on our sons and daughters.
A lot of time, we just don't think about it and hope kids raise themselves sometimes, but fatherhood is a deliberate action. We have to actually do fatherhood. It didn't end when we donated genetic materiel, it only started. My research for today's message showed me that girls tend to marry men like dad and boys tend to treat their wives like their dad treated mom.
I know a lot of folk weren't happy to hear that. Some people who have gone through divorce and are raising their children on their own and some folks whose kids are grown and gone in particular felt trapped when they heard this, but the important part is the word tend. Certainly, there's a good chance our children will make the same mistakes we did, but if we are willing to swallow our pride and humble ourselves and talk to our children telling them our fears and where we messed up and hoped we could have done better, we have a chance to help them through these difficult times and break the cycle.
posted by Pastor Tom at 3:21 PM
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