It's always assumed that Father is strong, courageous, he never taste pain and if he does he's not supposed to show it. Father also gets blamed for such foolish thinking as if a mans world.
Father is not someone you would expect to see crying or sitting around having had his feelings hurt, but yet do we ever ask ourselves why?
In some homes Father is the least observed face in the house, yet does anyone truly care enough to ask why?
Father is supposed to be a good if not "The" bread winner and keep food on the table, the kids in new shoes and keep Mom happy so everyone else will be happy. Of course Father can only be so wise until Father forget's and has to be reminded that "A happy wife equals a happy life"?
Father is expected to speak very few words in the course of his life yet at the top of that list of words He's expected to speak on a regular basis is the word "Yes".
Father is supposed to keep an open and full wallet on his person at all times. Father is supposed to know how to fix anything that breaks and that without having a care or asking how those things got broke to begin with.
Father is supposed to be the one that has all the answers when everyone else has exhausted their own opinions before asking for his.
Father is expected to be patient and quietly accept the blame when things don't go according to "everyone" else's plans in the house.
Father is expected to be able to bring swift order to the household when it's members can't agree and in the next moment manage himself adorable to the point as if their friend.
Father is expected to act his own age as well like a 10 year old at the drop of the hat. Father is expected to intuitively know the depths of engendered differences and that to include how to read minds and forecast moon cycles.
Father is expected to have few emotions nor is he's entitled to respond differently as does everyone else.
As everyone else gets older Father is still expected to keep up with the latest and comment even less than he did the day before.
Father is expected to make himself available just in case someone might have a question and be silent when nobody wants the answer.
It's assumed Father knows the answer to everything except what matters in the moment.
Father is only entitled to think when prompted and always do the right thing.
Fathers are expected to be seen and not heard and know when such a miracle should take place.
Fathers are expected to never tell a lie, yet tolerate and over look as many as are told.
Fathers are expected to act surprised and feel loved year after year with the same tie he gets at Christmas, his birthday and Fathers day.
It's expected that as Father gets older He knows less and less and should be grateful as if he also played a role in all that he now see's in His household.
So to all you Fathers out there, I bid you good tidings and I hope you enjoy and have a blessed Fathers Day as we each marvel at the expectations that have been placed on the office of a "True Father".
I wish it could be said without argument and be said especially in the household that belongs under the Father as it has been written.
As Fathers and as we reach for the full potential that can be found in the word "Realize" let us as Fathers remember our own Father the "Way" He would have us to. amen
Acts 4:18-19
Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God .
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1 Cor 11:3-4
Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
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John 20:10-17
Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"
"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary."
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father , to my God and your God.'"
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