I know, it seems odd for a blog post that’s mostly about women helping women, that I chose to post today about men.
Since it’s Father’s Day though, and we all had one, seemed appropriate when I read in my Daily Devotional about Fathers, that I share this.
I was lucky, I had an awesome Father. Growing up, I assumed I had the average and normal household, that all families were like ours. Young = Naive. My Father was born in 1911, survived the Depression, fought in WWII and Korea. There’s not much he had not encountered. But that’s not the side he showed me.
He was loving and affectionate. He was supportive and always had my back. I was an “only child” for 8 years till my brother came along so I had plenty of time to establish and hang onto “favored child” status! He was the product of divorce. My grandmother remarried and that man adopted my Father and his sister, my Aunt. I never knew that man as he died before I was born. Genealogy gets tricky when the last name doesn’t match the birth name.
Did my Father have strong male roll models? I’d say yes, but not in the usual sense. His came from military school and military based university. His came from serving his country in the Armed Forces. “Father to son” skipped a generation for him, and then when he had a son at age 50, he was past fatherhood “prime time”.
What I see now with my sons is a re-emergence of Father/Son relationships. So when I read this Bible quote in my devotional today, it reminded me that even though great fathering can skip generations, it also can reappear. I am so blessed to see this happening right before my eyes with my two sons and three grandsons.
It’s hard when a son realizes his Father is not the man he thought he was. It’s amazing when he does not let that deter him from being the best Father he can be. I am grateful for the kind of Father mine was to me. I am more than grateful for the kind of Father my sons are to their sons. Thank you to all those great Fathers out there today, on their special day. It does not go unnoticed.
“John 5:19”:
Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.”
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