fathers

Developing Your Friendship With God~

An intense, intimate relationship with God is a treasure to be desired more than gold itself. We have an ongoing connection with almighty God; let’s not waste it by neglecting to spend time with Him.

Acceptance – we must first accept the fact our children have fallen away from their Lord. Denial, pride, and fear keep us from the truth. It is this truth that leads us to lift our children in prayer, to lay them on the alter and leave them there for God to mold and to make them as He sees fit.

Happy Father's Day!

This is a special day to celebrate fathers all over the world. However, here in Japan, Father's Day is a bit different than it was in the states.

So, I've been taking a psychology class and recently were learning about child development and such. Well, this all brought me back to my child development class. In my child development class we would write a mini-short story using the vocab words we learned that week, I once wrote about a single-parent father.

Dear Daddy,

You called yesterday, but you didn't even bother to speak to me. Do you know how much that hurts. 

I didn't mean to find it. It was an accident, completely unexpected. One morning, while rummaging through my mom's dresser, I discovered, at the back, a journal. Looking back, I don't know what compelled me to open it, but I did. The last thing I expected was for it to be written to me.

While reading The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, I came upon a quote that I found to be so true and so close to me.

"Every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations, or make up for his father's mistakes."

I'm constantly trying to live up to my father's expectations.

    On the radio yesterday morning Johnny Chase... I think that is his name... He was talking about how hard it is for his wife to take their children back to school on the first day. He called her up and she was crying. I felt really bad because I can only imagine how that is going to feel like dropping off my daughter to school. He was being really mean with his wife because he says that it should not be that big of deal. This is not the first time they have ever been in school but she continues to be emotional every year.