It is true that there is a greater emphasis on Mother’s Day than Father’s Day and much of that is the fault of fathers. Many fathers have distance themselves from the day to day interactions of raising children and thus to many children fathers are an after mention. Many children go to mom when there is a need thus mom is celebrated and dad is acknowledge.
Liberalism has devalued the importance of two parent heterosexual households. I challenge every woman who believes she is both mother and father to her children. She is not; a woman cannot raise a man she can only raise sons. A woman cannot show a daughter how a man should treat her, by example, she only demonstrates how to choose a man that may or may not be right for her. The promotion of trans-genders as a valid lifestyle is further evidence of the devaluation of the alpha male father in the home.
There are fathers out there who go above and beyond modern day expectations of fatherhood, I refer to these men as daddy’s. Girls love their daddy’s and boys love their dad, because dad or daddy is there whenever he is needed for whatever the need.
When a child needs advice he or she can go to dad even if mom is right there. They see mom go to him for solutions so quite naturally they know he has all the answers. Amazingly, children who grow up in a single family home in which mom is the head of the house can also go to dad, if his importance is not diminished.
Fathers are a reflection of our heavenly Father. We cry out Abba Father (Galatians 4:6) and He hears us. We cry daddy and he hears us.
Dad’s do more than put a roof over a child’s head and clothes on the child’s back. Dad’s help with homework, give advice on friends, and correct a child when he or she does something wrong. Dad’s give unconditional love.
I am not a fan of man made days to acknowledge parents but I do believe we should give honor where honor is due. Father’s Day has become an excuse for companies to sell “manly” things like power tools and trucks just like Mother’s Day is a big day for restaurants. Buy the stuff when you see it not because of the “day”.
Not everyone’s father made it to the “day”, we need to appreciate the days. The Bible teaches we are to honor our father and mother without giving a specific day to do so, it is safe to believe that this is an everyday activity.
Finally, there are men out there who choose to be fathers not because they donated sperm but because they embraced the children of the woman they love and became step-dad. There are men who decided to become foster dads and even adoptive dads, they chose to be a father. These men knew exactly what they were getting into and it is not easy to be the father in a ready made family.
Man can claim the title father but not every man is a dad.
PROVERBS 17:6 (KJV)- written by Marsha L F Randolph
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
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