CHAPTER 6, PAGE 17

WHAT IS A FATHER?

A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic.

He growls when he feels good and laughs very loud when he is scared half-to-death.

A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child's eyes.

He is never quite the hero his daughter thinks. Never quite the man his son believes him to be. And this worries him sometimes. (So he works too hard to try to smooth the rough places in the road of those of his own who will follow him.)

A father is a person who goes to war sometimes ... and would run the other way except that war is part of an important job in his life (which is making the world better for his child than it has been for him).

Fathers grow older faster than other people, because they, in other wars, have to stand at the train station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs on board.

And, while mothers cry where it shows, fathers stand and beam ... outside ... and die inside.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough, so that they can have children that are smarter than anybody's.

Fathers fight dragons almost daily.

They hurry away from the breakfast table off to the arena, which is sometimes called an office or a workshop. There they tackle the dragon with three heads: Weariness, Works, and Monotony. And they never quite win the fight, but they never give up.

Knights in shining armor; fathers in shiny trousers. There's little difference as they march away each workday.

And when Father passes away, and after a good rest, he won't just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl he's loved and the children she bore. He'll be busy there too...repairing the stars, oiling the gates, improving the streets, smoothing the way.

Author Unknown

GOOD MORNING !

HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL FATHERS OUT THERE !

I have 4 boys that are fathers and I’m so very proud of them. They are all wonderful loving, sacrificing and caring fathers.

DS#2 is in the military far from home and family and so I’d like to say a special Happy Day to him as I know it must be hard not seeing those wonderful children of his.

My children all loved their Dad very much and I’m sure they still miss him. He had a very laid back kind of personality and always had time to spend with his children.

I see these good qualities showing up in my sons more and more.

Children do learn by example and they had one of the best.

Thought for Today

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G. K. Chesterton

May your day be blessed with a few SMILES and lots of SUNSHINE to warm your heart !

MA

 

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