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Father's Day Letter

Thu, 2006-06-15 15:54 — Eric
I got this today via email.  It was very touching to me, so I thought I'd share.

Dear Father, Daddy, God:

What a day!? A day to remember who has taught me, guided me and instilled wisdom in me my entire life. You have promised countless times that you love me. You have promised countless times that you will never leave me. You even went so far as to show me how much you love me by sending your only Son. Can I ask for anything else? Of course I can, and I always do. As any good father would do, you do what you feel is right in whether or not I should get what I ask for. I hope one day to be even half or even a quarter of the Father you've been to me. I hope that when my kids need something, I'm there for them as you have been for me. I hope that when my kids have questions, that I'm there for them as you have been for me. I hope that when they are going through good times or bad that I'm there for them, just as you have always been there for me.

So I end this letter by thanking you for being my Father and by writing that I have been VERY blessed by being one of your children! Furthermore, I want to thank for your undivided attention for me by treating me as your only child when I'm talking, even though you have countless children.

Happy Father's Day! Love, your son.

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Sun, 2008-06-15 09:46 — kalex

Father's Day

Amen.

It reminds me of so many verses as well as things in my own life that touch, sometimes deeply. It's hard to imagine sometimes why God puts up with as much as he does - I'm speaking personally. I've always gone to him for help in thanks and hope that he hears all those petitions. I read where he dispersed the Jews of old and allowed them to get 'spanked' time and again but, also how he was there to hear when he felt they'd learned their lesson. It's humbling. I hate that Jesus had to die to save us but thankful that he did. I know life is easy now for most, irregardless of how tough life can be but, how that truth at the end hits them in the face and they realize that our Father never intended us to live in a world like this. It reminds me of those two words when Jesus sat on a nearby hill and looked at Jerusalem: 'Jesus wept'
I can only imagine what was going through his mind, how hard he wanted his children to live in peace with him, the way it was meant to be, and how things turned out. A house divided.

"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18

I also remember the verses that my great-grandfather had put in the top of his casket, I guess so these promises would always be in mind.

"For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 8: 38, 39