Remembering fathers - The Richfield Reaper: Letters To The Editor: Father’s Day
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Remembering fathers
Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:59 pm
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Updated: 3:00 pm, Tue Jun 28, 2011.
Father’s Day
wishes.
What is a father? A father or
daddy is one who helped in our creation, who helped to give us life
here upon this Earth. He is one who unselfishly sacrifices his own
dreams many times over in order to provide for the basic comforts
and needs, food, shelter, clothing to the best of his abilities —
usually coming up short often, but he does his best.
He is one who seeks to spend
as much time with his children as possible, to help lead and guide
them through the twists and turns of life. He gives us advice in
many ways to help us avoid the dangers, the hurts of life, to teach
us how to be honorable, kind, honest, brave, loving, courteous,
patriotic, and to love to explore and learn what is good in life,
even when we children think we know best, that our father is
outdated, does not understand our lives, or that he just does not
get it, and we feel offended or hurt by his attempts at giving
advice that may be for our own learning and safety in life’s
journey.
A father gives up his
vacations, and lets his family go instead as he remains home and
works just to pay the bills. He gives up a lot of his free time to
spend learning new things to better provide for his children. He is
there when we fall down, when we are discouraged, when we are hurt,
when we just need a hug, a feeling of support and understanding. He
sometimes just needs to be home for reassurance at times. He is
usually misunderstood as we children grow older, we have
communication problems when the white noise of life and thinking
differences fog our communication process leading to sad moments.
He does his best, he works late, sometimes more than one job to
support his family.
Today’s fathers of
split/divorced homes will pay their children’s expenses usually at
great cost to their own, they will live in near or actual poverty
in paying their child support, and a lot do not receive much in
return. Today, many fathers are forgotten in the hustle of life,
through life’s problems the day of remembrance is forgotten, and
when grown children lose communication with their fathers as they
are busy with life.
This Father’s Day, take the
time to make a visit, send a card, make a phone call, e-mail,
tweet, something to remind your father you love him despite
his many flaws. No, fathers are not perfect and never will be,
however, just remember, neither are we children. So, give them a
break, tell them you love, respect their efforts and as you become
a father, do your best to do better than those before you in
raising your children.
And, last but not least,
remember on this Father’s Day — there is your physical, adopted,
stepfather here on Earth, but we still have one more to
remember.
Let us remember our Father in
Heaven above, the Creator of our spirits from whence we came before
we were born to our earthly parents. Our Father in Heaven has
entrusted our earthly fathers to care and protect and train us in a
good way. So, let us remember him this day. And,] let us who are
fathers do what we can to raise our children in a good way, and
always remember we are entrusted with the care of our Heavenly
Father’s spirit children, so let us be kind and loving, and teach
them the ways of truth.
Stephen Huls
Monroe
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