We Thank You, Dads...

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads of the world...

What an undertaking you have; the training up of a child! 

It's sweet, watching our son-in-law be 'daddy'!

Photo by lianarhodenizerphotography.com

Praying for all dads and God bless those who look to a higher Abba to lead them

For learning how to laugh and joke

And seek life’s greater good

As you shoulder the salient yoke

Of tender fatherhood

For letting go of dreamer's quest

To tie a tiny shoe

To recognize that living’s best

Is looking up to you

For giving with nothing to boast

But little hands to hold

Because, what a small child needs most

Cannot be bought or sold

For balancing check-books and chores

And learning to love noise

For many interrupted snores

By doors and girls and boys

In place of freedom, love’s sweet bond

The bliss when baby smiled

In place of fantastical Want

Practical need of child

For sacrifices overlooked

And underpaid, for debt

That trains the heart, oft overbooked

To trust God for The Yet

For all the second miles you trod

To make a wee one glad

We ask strength and blessing from God

And deeply thank you, Dad

© Janet Martin

 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Prov.22:6 

So thankful for my dad, a humble role model to a family of ten 'youngsters' :)


‘“The Lord bless you
    and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you
    and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you
    and give you peace.”’

Num.6:24-26