Poem For Father
Fathers are wonderful people
Too little understood,
And we do not sing their praises
As often as we should...
For, somehow, Father seems to be
The man who pays the bills,
While Mother binds up little hurts
And nurses all our ills...
And Father struggles daily
To live up to "HIS IMAGE"
As protector and provider
And "hero or the scrimmage"...
And perhaps that is the reason
We sometimes get the notion,
That Fathers are not subject
To the thing we call emotion,
But if you look inside Dad's heart,
Where no one else can see
You'll find he's sentimental
And as "soft" as he can be...
But he's so busy every day
In the grueling race of life,
He leaves the sentimental stuff
To his partner and his wife...
But Fathers are just WONDERFUL
In a million different ways,
And they merit loving compliments
And accolade of praise,
For the only reason Dad aspires
To fortune and success
Is to make the family proud of him
And to bring them happiness...
And like OUR HEAVENLY FATHER,
He's a guardian and a guide,
Someone that we can count on
To be ALWAYS ON OUR SIDE.
Helen Steiner Rice
THE KIND OF DAD I'D BUY
If I went shopping for a dad,
Here is what I'd buy:
One who would always stop
To answer a little girl's "why?"
One who would always speak kindly
To a little girl or boy,
One who would give to others
A bit of sunshine and joy.
I'd pick a dad that followed
The Bible's Golden Rule,
And one who went regularly
To Church and Sunday School.
I'd buy the very finest dad
To place on our family tree,
And then I'd try to live like him
So he would be proud of me.
Helen Kitchell Evans
A FATHER'S PLACE
It is a father's place
To be concerned about his own,
His household's faith in God;
The love of Christ enthrone.
A father e'er should be
Responsible, the head
Of all his house; feed them
The Word, the Living Bread.
By him his children should
Be led to worship God,
Through Christ; as in Him paths
Of righteousness are trod.
It is a father's place
(Today and every day)
To read the Word in circle sweet,
And lead and guide and pray.
Will you be one of those
To take his proper place?
To sit at meat with grateful heart,
His table, in Christ, grace?
Oh, Christian fathers! Hear
God's Word! His voice obey!
And thereby, teach your families
To love and trust and pray.
Eva Gray
GOD'S TEN MOST WANTED MEN
1. The man who puts God's business above other business.
2. The man who brings his children to church rather than sending them.
3. The man who is willing to be the right example to every boy he meets.
4. The man who thinks more of his Sunday School Class than he does of his Sunday sleep.
5. The man who measures his giving by what he has left rather than by the amount he gives.
6. The man who goes to church for Christ's sake, rather than for his own or someone else's.
7. The man who has more passion to help others than he had to be helped himself.
8. The man who can see his own faults before he sees the faults of others.
9. The man who stands firm in his convictions, based upon the Word of God, that is a "backbone" Christian.
10. The man who is more concerned about winning souls for Christ than he is about winning honor.
Source Unknown from Soul's Harvest,Pulpit Helps,submitted by Wayne Rouse,Astoria, Ill