So, today I have decided to go ahead and begin celebrating my birthday a week in advance. HA! Tonight, Cars 3 is on the agenda and in 3D to boot! I plan on writing a review for anyone interested in knowing what the movie was about before going to see it.
My son and daughter are super stoked and I thought it would be a perfect beginning to my special week! Plus we're going to see it at the Biltmore Park which I believe I spoke of in one of my earlier posts. This special place reminds me of a place stuck in time.
Away from the hustle and bustle of traffic, the people shopping seem to have a confident sense of being there on purpose. It's a turn off the main road with a dead end to the shopping plaza, so unless you're meaning to be there, there really is no reason to stay which keeps throughway traffic to a minimum.
But, speaking of celebrations and the like, Father's Day is happening this weekend as well!! Father's Day I feel is a touchy day more than Mother's Day. All of us have both, but in more ways on the side of the Dads children have had painful experiences. So this post is for the Dads who stayed and the Dads who left. The Dads who are still living and the Dads who have passed. The Dads who are serving, working, honoring, and loving; and the Dads who are surviving, trying, searching, and hurting.
Let me just say that WE (the community at large, and the Church as a whole) love YOU! We would not be here on this planet without you and whether you are walking with God or not, we NEED you.
The devil has done a pretty good job of lying to all of us when he says, "Being a dad is too hard", "It's too difficult", "Your family doesn't care about you", "They don't need you", "You aren't good enough", "What if you become just like YOUR dad?" But here's the thing, we as a society, have done a pretty good job at believing and enforcing those lies.
God created a man first. That must mean that he was pretty important. Secondly, he made him to be a husband, and then thirdly a father. God has a plan for that piece of every man's life, and whatever someone else has done or didn't do, doesn't have to effect us in the long run. Neither does our past have to seal our fate. Today, is the day of salvation and God's mercies are new every morning!
YOU can change your future. Whether you had a dad that hurt you, whether your dad lost his life too soon, whether you never met your dad, or whether you want to be a better dad; you have the opportunity of getting to know THE Father who has all the answers to every question and every void that you might have. The Father, God, is LOVE. In the last two posts, this attribute came up as well. Love forgives the hurt and pays no attention to a suffered wrong. Love believes the best of every person. Perfect love casts out fear which means in every situation, we can go to Him for security, wisdom, and help.
Father's Day should be a day that we release the past and embrace the future. But it should also be a day that we take the time to praise and celebrate the men who have walked faithfully and left a legend within their family and community. Father's Day should be a day that we thank the Lord for being a good Father full of love to the point that He would adopt any of us who accept His Son -- Jesus.
In the light of the up coming holiday, I encourage all of us to remember our true Father and spend time just telling Him how much we love Him. We need to let our earthly fathers (no matter the situation, as best we can) know how much we love them. And let's be a little easier on yourselves dads. You're being perfected in Christ, but we also love you just the way you are.
This may seem extremely simple as a blog post, but in all honesty, our minds can get in the way, making it more complicated, and when our spirit man wants to just love, we talk ourselves in to criticizing, hating, and holding on we can become frustrated at the whole situation. On the positive side though, we have some really great dads! Men of God, men protecting our country, men providing for their families, men leading the way.
I am thankful for my Father who has taught me how to love. I can always count on Him in everything. I am thankful for my dad who raised me, loved me, and invested in me through out my life. I am thankful for my father-in-law who has adopted me as his own and taught me more than I could have every imagined. I am thankful for my husband who stays connected with our children and teaches them how to stay child-like (notice I didn't say childish 😁)while honoring God.
My prayer is that you find something special within this Father's Day and celebrate it. Whatever might try to steal that away from you, don't let it. Hug your dad, meditate on that memory, find something good out of the ugly. God will help you and He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. James 1:17
Be blessed this Father's Day!
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