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Happy Father's Day to Our Father Who Art in Heaven
There are no illegitimate children. Another truth is none of us are fatherless if we believe in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Our earthly fathers may be unknown, deceased, at war, imprisoned or absent from our lives but we have a Father who is ever-present, or Omni-present.
You may have learned in your studies, Omni is an attribute wherein, presence is sense-driven. We experience His Omni-presence; it means He is everywhere all the time at the same time. He is with all of us whether we accept or reject Him is our choice. Experience His presence is being aware of Him being there at a conscious level. This is why He said He would never leave nor forsake us. He is simply unable to do it because of His Omni-presence! We have a Father who is always there for us!
One would never take lightly the pain, longing for or the sadness endured when a parent is no longer in our lives. It is our desire for everyone with an open mind and a soft heart to know we are not alone when a loved one was never there or is no longer there for us.
Because of Father's Day, we have written and read numerous articles about the love we have for our fathers. Having a sincere desire for everyone to know joy and live eternally, you as a reader may come to know Our Father Who Art in Heaven as you read more about Him.
This Father is awesome! The natural things in life do not remain natural but become the Supernatural because of His presence. He has given sight to the blind, caused the lame to walk and restored hearing to the deaf. He does not reserve supernatural works for Himself alone. No, we have been charged with greater works than He. How can this be, you may ask? There is strength in numbers. When we come together in His name, He is able to work through us, thus multiplying what one can do alone.
Many of us have painted a portrait of our earthly fathers on the canvas of our minds with word descriptions. The word descriptions below were taken from the Word of God and are a self-portrait of Our Father Who Art in Heaven. These Word descriptions will reflect His unfailing love for His children, whether we believe in Him or not.
Our Father heals our wounds -past, present and future! (Isaiah 53:5)
Our Father wanted us, we were not an accident! (Jeremiah 1:4-5 and Psalm 139:13-14)
Our Father waits for us if we are lost! (Luke 15:20-24, most notably known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son)
Our Father knows what we need and comforts us! (Isaiah 51:12)
Our Father has glorious plans for us! He loves to bless us! (Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans 8:29)
Our Father wants to spoil us! (John 15:5-7)
Our Father wants us to be in good health! (Matthew 9:12)
Our Father does not want us to ever quit! (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)
Our Father's love for us cannot be changed! (I John 4:10)
Our Father will meet us at our personal level of faith. (Psalm 5:1-3 and Romans 8:26)
Our Father is always, always there for us! (Psalm 139:7-12)
Our Father delights in giving us gifts! (I Corinthians 4:7 and Romans 1:21-22, 25)
Our Father equipped us fully and completely to be successful! (Jeremiah 1:6-8)
Our Father does not have favorites among His children! (Acts 10:34-35)
Our Father feels every pain that we feel! (Matthew 11:25-30)
Our Father wants first place in our lives and has earned it! (Philippians 3:7-8 and Exodus 20:1-3)
With our Father, the News is good! (Ephesians 1:3-10)
Our Father wants us to love one another. (John 13:34, 15:12, 17)
Our Father died for us! (John 19)
Our Father loves us! (John 3:16)
Yes, our Father loves us so much that death, a borrowed tomb nor satan could keep Him from us. He came back as the Executor of His estate. He wants each of His children to inherit the blessings He desires for us. The enemy desires to rob us of our inheritance but He is Omni-potent! He has fought every one of our battles and won! Thank you, Father!
...and to all the FATHERS out there...HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! :jumpingangel:
^^^searchwarp.com
THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHERS
Its pretty obvious that every child needs a father. Participatory fatherhood is good for kids, families, and fathers themselves. Men today ARE spending more time with their children and more time helping around the house.
And even more significant than the time spent with the children is the concern that men today have for their children and their desire to be ACTIVE PARENTS.
Some fathers suffer from what I call "baby illiteracy" but this is easily remedied when fathers read about babies, participate in childbirth classes, attend the birth, share in the care of the baby from the very beginning, and serve as an active member of the parenting team.
WHAT FATHERS PROVIDE
For starters, fathers provide half of the child's genetic material. They also provide a second pair of hands, monetary resources, a role model of an adult male, and the teaching of specific skills. And Dad is another source of unconditional love so essential to every child.
We have all heard the expression, "It takes a village to raise a child." In traditional societies the extended family takes part in child-rearing.
Most of us don't have an extended family handy so all the parenting tasks fall to Mommy and Daddy of the nuclear family. It's pretty obvious that a mother employed outside the home needs help with child-rearing. But even if the mother stays at home and is fully capable of providing all the child-rearing the baby needs, fathers should help care for the children.
Children need to learn how to react to different people. The ideal situation in infancy is having two primary caretakers, a mother and a father.
Many people describe their own father as a distant figure, a person hard to get close to. But today's father has been liberated from the stereotype of the cold, impersonal, unemotional man. Men are not afraid or ashamed to experience emotional closeness to their child.
Thus today's father provides both boy and girl children with a role model of the NURTURING MAN.
A FATHER'S TASKS
1) MOTHER YOUR CHILD'S MOTHER. When you provide nurturance and support for the mother you help her to mother well. She needs your support during pregnancy to help her deal with her changing body and feelings. She needs your help and support to recover from the birth. She needs your help in parenting.
2) SHARE in the most important part of parenting: SOCIALIZING the baby. This means discussing how to discipline the child, learning how to deal with your own feelings about how you were disciplined as a child, learning how to communicate with both spouse and child, and striving for consistency.
3) SPEND TIME ALONE with your toddler or child. Play. Go for walks. Hang out together. Read to the child.
4) BE A ROLE MODEL to your sons. Your son will learn how to be a man from being with and dealing with you. And remember children will be apt to do what you do, not necessarily what you tell them to do.
5) SPEND TIME WITH YOUR DAUGHTER. Don't ignore or avoid her because she is a girl. Girls need their fathers as much as boys do. Children of both genders must learn what to expect and how to deal with adults of both genders. And don't sex-stereotype. Teach both your son and daughter how to use a hammer and nails.
6) TEACH your child what you know how to do and what you love to do whether it be sports, music, back-packing, or chess.
7) HELP AROUND THE HOUSE. Motherhood is a full-time job. If you sit around while your wife does the house work you give a terrible message to your kids that mothers and their work are not valued.
8) ENJOY YOUR CHILDREN. Look on the time you spend caring for your children as a privilege rather than a chore. There will be times when your infant spits up on your new sweater or your toddler throws an awful tantrum in public. But there will also be blissful moments when your infant curls its hand around your finger or you overhear your child describe you as the "best Daddy in the world!"
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Celebrate Your Dad...with these meaningful quotes, sayings and short poems...
"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
-- Louis Adamic
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." -- Aeschylus
"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
-- Louisa May Alcott
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
-- Alexander the Great
"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."
-- Anonymous
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
-- Enid Bagnold
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
-- Bill Cosby
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
-- Bill Cosby
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee."
-- Margaret Courtney
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
-- Mario Cuomo
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
-- Mario Cuomo
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
-- Marlene Dietrich
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "
-- Euripedes
"Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
-- Exodus 20:12
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' "
-- Jim Fox
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
-- Robert Frost
"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular."
-- Robert Frost
"A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
-- Sigmund Freud
"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
-- Anne Geddes
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
-- David M. Gottesman
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
-- Antonio Gramsci
"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
-- Helen Hayes
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-- George Herbert
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
-- Russell Hoban
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
-- Homer
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
--Natasha Josefowitz
"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."
-- Garrison Keillor
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
-- Clarence Budington Kelland
"My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now."
-- John F. Kennedy
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'""
-- Dexter Scott King
"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path."
-- Stephen King
"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'""
-- Jerry Lewis
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Honor thy father and thy mother."
-- Matthew 19:19
"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get."
-- Phyllis McGinley
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
-- Friedrich Nietzche
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
-- Robert Orben
"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
-- Carroll O'Connor
"A wise son maketh a glad father."
-- Proverbs 10:1
"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
-- Queen Victoria of England
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
-- Ruth E. Renkel
"Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. "
-- Laurence Rockefeller
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
-- J. August Strindberg
"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."
-- Publilius Syrus
"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh."
-- The Holy Bible
"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own homeit's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
-- Margaret Truman
"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season".
-- Unknown
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
-- Unknown
"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much."
-- Unknown
"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
-- Unknown
"For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference."
-- Alan Valentine
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
-- Charles Wadsworth
^^^www.chiff.com/a/fathers-day-quotes
Fathers Day Facts & Trivia
Fathers Day was invented by American Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd whose father had, as a single parent raised his six children. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910.
In spite of the impression you might get from the media, according to the Office of National Statistics, four fifths of children have a Dad at home - eighty per cent of dependent children live with their father.
Three per cent of fathers living with dependent children are lone fathers.
According to greetings card makers Hallmark, Fathers Day is the fifth-largest card-sending holiday.
The film Fathers' Day (1997) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/B00004CX8C&tag=eparenting-21&camp=1634&creative=6738) starred Robin Williams and Billy Crystal as two middle aged men who are tricked into finding an ex-girlfriends runaway son when she tells them they are both the father.They have to team up to find the boy and discover who the real father is.The film was a hit due to the big-name cast but was not a critical success.
Marilyn Monroe famously sung Cole Porters My Heart Belongs to Daddy. She did not know who her real father was.
One of the best-know quotes about fathers was from Mark Twain.He said of his Father When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
The Episode of Dr. Who (played by Christopher Eccleston) entitled Fathers Day involved Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) travelling back in time to the day that her father was killed.She steps in to prevent his death causing the inevitable rent in the space/time continuum. Doctor Who - The Complete First Series Boxset (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/B0009AK57Y&tag=eparenting-21&camp=1634&creative=6738)
More from the Office of National Statistics; in 1971 the average age of a father where the birth occurred inside a married relationship in England and Wales was 27; by 1999 this had increased to 31. These days, fathers are generally three years younger where births occur outside marriage. The average age of the father where the birth occurred outside marriage decreased from 28 to 26 between 1971 and 1991 but had since increased to almost 28 again in 1999.
The must-have gift for Father's Day this year? Surprise Dad this year with a mobile medical unit siren or maybe a, er, cow? from 'Cows 'n' Things'
www.cowsnthings.org.uk (http://www.cowsnthings.org.uk/)
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_father_is_a_fellow_who_has_replaced_the/14271.html)
^^^thinkexist.com
Anonymous
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
A Father's Prayer
http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/father.jpeg Lord,
I need your special care.
Like your earthly father, Joseph,
I want to do God's will,
even if I may not always understand. Make me gentle and selfless
in the care of my family and children;
help me guide them in the toils and troubles,
the happiness and wonders of this life.
Like my Father in heaven,
make me strong in love and forgiveness
for those you entrust to my care.
No one can do these things rightly, Lord,
without your constant help and boundless mercy.
Be with me always,
and may I come to you in heaven,
and all my family with me.
Amen.
What is a father's great task?
To bring himself and his family to God.
That task requires self-discipline, wisdom, patience,
strength and understanding. Small minds and hearts of children are not easy to guide;
adolescent minds and hearts are bewildered and battered at times;
the minds and hearts of young adults are often lost
or too embarrassed to seek guidance.
For them a father is a steady example
of perseverance and good,
a beacon for wondering and wandering minds.
How could a father's task be done
unless he remembered his children were created
by a loving, wise and merciful God
who is with his children - and with him?
^^^crypton.org/prayer
pinoypower
06/09/09, 05:36 PM
Celebrate Your Dad...with these meaningful quotes, sayings and short poems...
"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."
-- Louis Adamic
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." -- Aeschylus
"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
-- Louisa May Alcott
"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well."
-- Alexander the Great
"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."
-- Anonymous
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
-- Enid Bagnold
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
-- Bill Cosby
"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."
-- Bill Cosby
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee."
-- Margaret Courtney
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
-- Mario Cuomo
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
-- Mario Cuomo
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma."
-- Marlene Dietrich
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. "
-- Euripedes
"Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
-- Exodus 20:12
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' "
-- Jim Fox
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
-- Robert Frost
"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular."
-- Robert Frost
"A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
-- Sigmund Freud
"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
-- Anne Geddes
"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
-- David M. Gottesman
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
-- Antonio Gramsci
"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
-- Helen Hayes
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-- George Herbert
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
-- Russell Hoban
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
-- Homer
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
--Natasha Josefowitz
"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."
-- Garrison Keillor
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
-- Clarence Budington Kelland
"My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now."
-- John F. Kennedy
"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'""
-- Dexter Scott King
"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path."
-- Stephen King
"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'""
-- Jerry Lewis
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Honor thy father and thy mother."
-- Matthew 19:19
"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get."
-- Phyllis McGinley
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
-- Friedrich Nietzche
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
-- Robert Orben
"People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad."
-- Carroll O'Connor
"A wise son maketh a glad father."
-- Proverbs 10:1
"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
-- Queen Victoria of England
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
-- Ruth E. Renkel
"Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. "
-- Laurence Rockefeller
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
-- J. August Strindberg
"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."
-- Publilius Syrus
"I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh."
-- The Holy Bible
"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own homeit's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
-- Margaret Truman
"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season".
-- Unknown
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
-- Unknown
"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much."
-- Unknown
"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
-- Unknown
"For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference."
-- Alan Valentine
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
-- Charles Wadsworth
^^^www.chiff.com/a/fathers-day-quotes (http://www.chiff.com/a/fathers-day-quotes)
I'm teary eyed! Who needs money with all these accolades?:intears:
I'm teary eyed! Who needs money with all these accolades?:intears:
^^^ indeed!:halo:
God the Father, happy Birthday!
God the Father is the Supreme Being in whom we believe and whom we worship. He is the ultimate Creator, Ruler, and Preserver of all things. He is perfect, has all power, and knows all things. He "has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's"
The Father of Our Spirits
One of life's great questions is "Who am I?" A beloved Primary (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=f9d60abf0c4b2110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ) song helps even little children answer this question. We sing, "I am a child of God, and he has sent me here." The knowledge that we are children of God provides strength, comfort, and hope.
We are all literally children of God, spiritually begotten in the premortal life (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=06740abf0c4b2110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ). As His children, we can be assured that we have divine, eternal potential and that He will help us in our sincere efforts to reach that potential.
The Supreme Creator
Heavenly Father is the Supreme Creator. Through Jesus Christ (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=3d077c2fc20b8010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ), He created heaven and earth and all things in them (see Moses 2:1 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moses/2/1#1)). Alma said, "All things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator" (Alma 30:44 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/30/44#44)).
The Author of the Plan of Salvation
Our Father in Heaven wants us to dwell with Him eternally. His work and glory is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/moses/1/39#39)). In order to make this possible, He prepared the plan of salvation (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=45af9daac5d98010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ). He sent His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to loose the bands of death and atone for the sins of the world: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/john/3/16#16)). This sacrifice is the greatest expression of our Father's love for us.
Coming to Know God the Father
As children of God, we have a special relationship with Him, setting us apart from all His other creations. We should seek to know our Father in Heaven. He loves us, and He has given us the precious opportunity to draw near to Him as we pray. Our prayers (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=b6139daac5d98010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ), offered in humility and sincerity, are heard and answered.
We can also come to know our Father by learning about His Beloved Son and applying the gospel in our lives. The Savior taught His disciples: "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. . . . He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:7, 9 (http://scriptures.lds.org/en/john/14/7,9#7)).
We draw near to God the Father as we study the scriptures (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=39327c2fc20b8010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ) and the words of latter-day prophets (http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=c6549c57af139010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&vgnextoid=bbd508f54922d010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD ) and as we give service. When we follow God's will and live as He would have us live, we become more like Him and His Son. We prepare ourselves to return to live in Their presence.
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