Archive for May, 2006
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006Lessons My Father Taught Me I watched you today, as you watched your grandchildren, my children- and wondered how you endured the pain, fear, joy and elation that transforms us into parents. I remembered the patience, the laughter, the tears. Do I have the strength to endure it all? It is with great anticipation that [...]
Poems For Father’s Day
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006Father 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 [...]
Poems For Father
Monday, May 29th, 2006My Hero As I ponder the love that I saw in his eyes, A Godly love, given without compromise…. I recall many times that he stood by my side, And prodded me on with great vigor and pride. His voice ever confident, firm and yet fair, Always speaking with patience, tenderness and care. The power [...]
Fatherhood Quotes
Sunday, May 28th, 2006For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference. — Alan Valentine [...]
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