I teach senior fitness classes and wanted to have a gift for the father's on Father's Day. I wrote this story to portray the immense importance of Christian father's and the role they play in guiding their children.
I made a star tie tac to give each father. It was fun! (I marbled red, white and blue polymer clay and cut the stars out with little cookie type cutters).
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| Tie Tacs and Card for Fathers |
As a boy, one weekend my
family decided to go camping in the nearby Rockies. After Mom and my two younger siblings had
gone to bed, Dad and I were waiting for the campfire to die down. Finally we shoveled some dirt over the coals
and made sure no hot spots were left.
We’d be leaving tomorrow.
Dad said, “Come on, Son. Let’s take a walk.” We took a path that lead to an overlook. As we stopped, I stared down with fascination
at a vast ocean of sparkling lights. The city looked endless.
“Now turn around,” Dad
instructed, as he switched off his flashlight. I turned away from the lights of the city
below. My eyes slowly adjusted to the
darkness of the nearly moonless night and I could make out shadows of pines and
a few aspens.
“Look up,” Dad said. I looked up and was amazed by the hundreds of
stars I could see. At home they were a
pale sight compared to the bright lights of the city. Here they were brilliant.
Dad said,
“You know people have not always had electricity and cars and computers. For
thousands of years, they looked up to the heavens for guidance. These stars helped them to find their way. Now we look to gadgets to help us find our
way, thinking we’d be lost without them.”
“Son, you
will never get lost if you remember to look up for God’s guidance. Sometimes you will have to step away from the
world’s brightness to see the true light.”
As I
listened to my dad, even at that young age, I knew that the brightest guiding
star God had given me, was talking to me right now.
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Fathers have
been guiding their children since the beginning of time. The greatest have taught them to look up to
find answers to life’s purpose.
Please accept this pin as a
symbol of the “Guiding Star” you have been to the generations that follow close
behind you. Thank you for accepting the life’s work of being a father. There is no greater calling.
Happy Father’s Day!
