Celebrating Father’s Day without your father alive is . . . . wierd.
I just assume skip FD every year, except for the fact that I am too a father, and my kids also like giving me funking ties or a DVD on my “favs list”.
I had two fathers. #1 was my step-Dad and he was my “father” for 34 years. He died of lung cancer in 1996. #2 was my real-Dad with whom I reconciled to within weeks of his death to liver disease in 2001.
I remember playing softball in a church league in 1973. I was playing short-stop and not paying much attention to the batter. He hit a steaming line drive and which promptly lodged itself in my sternum, taking my breath away. I thought I was never going to breathe again.
Losing my “dads” was kinda like that. It took my breath (deep in my soul) away the day I got the “calls” - and still does, even as I write these words………………
Breathe, breathe . . .
Okay, now in my finest “told you so” kinda attitude (sort of like Dad used to do), let me admonish you guys with Dads still alive this Father’s Day. Go give him a big hug (for me) and tell him you love him.
And if you fail to take my paternal advice I will personally bust your chops the next time I see you.
Have a Happy Father’s Day!
He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22:20, ESV)
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Kraig, I’m sorry to hear about the loss of both of your fathers. I really don’t have any kind of relationship with my real dad, as he moved away from me when my parents divorced when I was 9.
As for my step-father, this is a much different situation. He helped raise me, helped me become a Christian and also performed our wedding ceremony.
On top of that, he saved my life.
Although I can not know what it feels like to have lost my father I can also no know what it felt like to have a close relationship with my father ither. My father an aroaund on my mom for years and then left her. He was in sales and was never home. I ahve had a deep resentment for him for many years for the way he treated my mother and I and my sister having to see it as well. We are still friendly at best but hardly close. Cherish those moments that you had with your fahters whiler they were here because alot of us still have fathers here and have never had those moments.
It was bad enough to loose my father 14 years back….it was worst to loose my father-in-law a few days back…it was like loosing my father all over again…..