Fathers
Day
Thank
you Dad for serving God by serving our family!!!!
How blessed I
have been to have you as my Dad! I really don’t know who I would be if God did
not give me to you. I remember once I had a dream I found out I was adopted, I
was so mad and when I awoke I was still angry. For I wanted no other Father or
Mother.
You had asked God how you could instill a
love for Him in your children. And God told you to just love Him. You never
followed someone else’s plan or program, only God. And now 33 years later that love you
desired your children to have with your Heavenly Father, they have and desire
even more!
Thank you for not chasing wealth or the
things of this world! Thank YOU SO MUCH for chasing God! Thank you for your
time…looking back I ask myself how did you have the time to accomplish all that
you did? You raised seven children, provided for, loved, served, sacrificed yourself
for your wife and Children. You desired Mom to be there at home for us and made
sure she never had to work away from us! You strengthened her when she felt
like it was seven to one. You sat down with us (even though you just had a long
day at work) and corrected and shepherded us. It would have been easy to let us
run wild but now you get to see the harvest of so many years of sowing and
weeding!
Through the years you have given us SO
MUCH. You have shared with us SO MUCH. You have taken us so many places that I
have taken for granted. But not anymore! Thank You Daddy for teaching me how to
swim! For taking us to the beach, camping, hiking, biking, to the park, boating
(even though it must have felt like you worked on the boat more than you got to
enjoy it), across country and back in the van with ALL seven of us Children,
for taking us also to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, for the road trip
to Washington and everywhere in-between! Thank you for all the times we sat
around the dinner table laughing ‘til we cried, for all the stories, jokes, and
lessons, for the late nights we all laid out on the trampoline just watching
the stars, for the back yard evenings where you would sit with mom on the big
swing you made for us and watch and play with us. Thank you for taking us
sledding at night and for playing with us in the snow. Thank you for the
bonfires! Thank you for being one of my BEST friends, for all the daddy
daughter dates! for the time where we went to the store to get our diet ice
cream and ate it right out of the bucket in the car!!! For the safe place that
I call home, for never saying something is too hard! Thank you for seeing what
I could do and having me do it. Thank you for all the times you took us to work
with you, even though it took time before we probably were able to really help
and not slow you down! Now you have seven children who are favored in the work
place because you taught us! Thank you for giving us mom; for the love and care
she could give us all day every day and night because you provided for us! I
must have lived the life of twenty, for all the things we have enjoyed!
I am more aware now than ever how privileged
I am to be your daughter! I have an earthly daddy who I would run to when I am
sick, have an injury, my car breaks down, if I’m afraid, when I need counseling,
if my heart is breaking, if I’m angry, if I need wisdom, if I need
encouragement, when I need prayer. You
always have a hug ready for me that makes every fear and pain run and
hide. When you are there I don’t fear
what is before or behind. How can anyone survive without a daddy like mine?!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Most of all thank you for guiding me to
the One True Father! And for desiring that He would have our hearts and
devotion. I know that because of your love for Him, your faithfulness, and perseverance
God has rewarded and blessed us!
Through the last
34 years you have continually sought God your Heavenly Father for leading and
guiding of your family. You watched family life when you grew up and learned
from others examples. You are always learning something! When your first child
was born 33 years ago, you felt the weight of the responsibility. You did not take the easy road. You chose the hard road and now see the
reward. You chose to follow God’s guidance even though those were the hardest
33 years of your life. Now an ocean apart a friend sings a song for me and it
makes me think of you and now I cry because I realize just how much it TRULY
reminds me of you!
I want God’s way to be my way as I
journey here below
For there is no other Highway that a
child of God should go
Though the road be steep and rough
If God leads me it’s enough
I want God’s way to be my way everyday
Happy
Father’s Day
I
love you, daddy, to Africa and back…and SO much more!
Love,
Your Who
😭 😊👍
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