With yesterday being Father's Day I can't not at least pay a small tribute
to fathers, at least the ones that I know, to honor them for Father's Day. First
I will start with mine. I honestly don't know him well as he and my mom split
when I was about five years old. But I know some of him must have passed onto
me. I look a lot like him and he is a little scatter-brained as I am (thanks
dad) and he is very much into Fitness. He was an amateur body builder for
several years and has been a gym rat to say the least for the majority of his
life and even owning a few gyms even now. He even allowed me to manage his gym
for the better half of last year and paid for my training. The exercise bug I
have always had in me since I was a young girl did, I'll have to admit, come
from him and I thank him for that.
The second Father that I would like to pay tribute to is my Dad, not to be
confused with my father. He is the Dad that God had placed in my life when my
mother remarried when I was fourteen. He was always there for me no matter what
time of day or night it was and no matter how silly or monstrous the problems
were. He taught me about the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, the
importance of paying my bills before I spend my money on 'toys' and that God
does make Daddies for you when yours leaves your life. He passed away on April
12th, 2000 just a few days before my father came to Alaska to see his daughter
for the first time since 1981 and to meet his five grandchildren for the first
time. Why God allows things to happen sometimes we will never understand but how
he worked this one out in perfect timing I will never need to know but I am glad
he did. I lost one dad and gained another. I miss you Dad.
My husband is a wonderful man that I cannot leave out of this special Father's
Day tribute. He has been a wonderful step-dad to my kids and a wonderful father
to our son. He accepted a huge responsibility several years ago when he married
this single mother of four and took her children under his loving wing. I thank
him for loving my children as well as 'ours', I thank him for not beating them
even though I know sometimes he probably wants to, I thank him for teaching them
to fish, hunt, wrestle and burp real loud, I thank him for all the times I know
he has read his Bible looking for answers to many questions Dad's have asked, I
thank him for the many prayers he has whispered to the Lord pleading for the
protection and more for our kids and I thank him for raising our children with
the love of the Lord. Thank you Honey for doing your best and for keeping our
kids from their worst.
Last, but never least, I would like to pay tribute to my one and only true
Father. My Creator, my Maker, my Lord and my Daddy. All other dad's will
eventually pass away and some will even hurt you, but the one true loving Father
we can all rely on at all times is our Father in Heaven, our God. No matter how
silly or monstrous our problems are, no matter what time of day or night, no
matter how busy he is with all of his other children, he has always been there
for me and I know he always will. He has saved me from all of my sins and
continues to do so through the precious blood of his son Jesus. He has saved me
from myself when I start to make a bad decision for my life. And he has helped
to pick me up and dust me off on several different occasions when I ignored his
advice and went through with my bad decisions anyway. Thank you Daddy God for
being my Savior, my Rescuer, my Advisor, my Doctor, my Counselor and more but
most of all, I want to thank you for being my Father.
