The history of Father's Day is very interesting. The thought for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. The idea of having the Father's Day came to the mind of Sonora Smart while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.
The National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City in 1926. A Joint Resolution of Congress recognized Father's day in 1956 and in 1966 President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. Consequently, Father's Day was born in memory and appreciation by a daughter who believed her father and all other fathers should be honored with a special day.
Exodus 20:12 reads, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you” NIV. This is the first commandment with a promise attached to it. In part, it means following their example of putting God first. Parents have a special place in God’s sight. Those amongst us who find it challenging to get along with parents are still commanded to honor them.
There is a difference between obeying and honoring. To obey means to do as one is told; to honor means to respect and love. If our faith in Christ is real, it will usually prove itself at home in our relationships with those who know us best.
June 17 is Father’s Day. Let me leave you with some of these Famous Quotes on Father:
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• I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me where I started. - Bartrand Hubbard
• By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. – Charles Wadsworth
• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. – Sigmund Freud
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Mark Twain
• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. – Tim Russert
• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. – Mario Cuomo
• It is a wise father that knows his own child. – William Shakespeare.
Amen.
- Ray Adams
Rayt242611@bellsouth.net
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