I got 3 ties for Father's Day. First time I've received ties for the day. My daughter heard me say three months ago that I needed a new yellow tie, and she picked out one and two others, and two shirts (one a new Alabama golf shirt that I love).
Today, after church, we ate Chinese and I taught my daughter to ride a bike without training wheels. She even did an interview on our video camera about the new skill. Good thing I've lost 35 pounds! I haven't run so much in a long time. We're going to work on starting and stopping later in the week.
Today was a very good day for our family. It was a challenging sermon from the pastor to really be the priest of my home. That's a message I need to heed more and just do it more consistently, more seriously. The world is gone haywire, and today is one of those rarest treasures where I sensed God in everything that happened. Tomorrow requires faithfulness, and I pray that I will be an obedient son as I live to be an exemplary father.
Nine years ago, I was asked to fill in for our pastor (different church then, of course) on Father's Day. Funny, since I had no children then and my own father was gone when I was in first grade. I spoke about being a father to the fatherless, and related my own experience as a "Big" with Big Brothers/Big Sisters in Tuscaloosa while I was in law school. That day, what I said connected with a lot of single moms -- go figure. While I'm ever mindful of the difficulties of life without a dad, I'm ever motivated to be here for my daughter. Today is a polar opposite in the kind of joy from that day nine years ago.
Hope your day was as special as ours was to me.