Deacons Beacon
Father’s Day
It has been said that a dad is a fellow who has replaced the money in his wallet with snap shots of his family. No matter where a day takes him or what he does, a dad carries his family in his heart.
My earliest recollection of my father was when we were standing waiting for a bus on a cold wet winter evening. I was about four or five years old and we had been visiting my grandparents. We had no car so we had to rely on public transportation. To keep warm my father opened his coat, stood close to me and closed the coat around me. I felt warm and secure and loved.
Good fathers desire to spend time with their family so they know the family’s needs and can do whatever they possibly can to meet those needs. When they laugh with their children, it makes the times of discipline more meaningful. It has been said that the ratio of compliments to discipline should be ninety to ten. That would mean that for every ten times a father needs to discipline a child, he would need to give the child ninety compliments. What a powerful impact on a child to know that one of a father’s main goals is to see his children doing what is right and praise them for it.
Every father needs to see his son or daughter as someone very special. We need to tell them often that we’re glad God gave them to us. It is our desire to not only have a picture of them in our wallets but to always have them in our hearts in a very special place.
Every day a father’s prayer should be “thank you, Lord for the privilege and joy of being a father.”
Bob Refermat, Deacon Chairman