This is a cute, but touching tribute to Fathers that I read at The Hillbilly Housewife...
What Is A Father?
~Author unknown~
A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic. He growls when he feels good and laughs very loud when he is scared half-to-death.
A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child’s eyes. He is never quite the hero his daughter thinks. Never quite the man his son believes him to be. And this worries him sometimes. (So he works too hard to try to smooth the rough places in the road of those of his own who will follow him.)
A father is a person who goes to war sometimes … and would run the other way except that war is part of his only important job in his life, (which is making the world better for his child than it has been for him).
Fathers grow older faster than people, because they, in other wars, have to stand at the train station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs on board. And, while mothers cry where it shows, fathers stand and beam — outside — and die inside.
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men, who aren’t nearly good enough, so that they can have children that are smarter than anybody’s.
Fathers fight dragons almost daily. They hurry away from the breakfast table, off to the arena which is sometimes called an office or a workshop. There, with callused hands, they tackle the dragon with three heads; Weariness, Works, and Monotony. And they never quite win the fight, but they never give up. Knights in shining armor; fathers in shiny trousers. There’s little difference as they march away each workday.
I don’t know where father goes when he dies, but I’ve an idea that, after a good rest, wherever it is, he won’t just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl he’s loved and the children she bore. He’ll be busy there too — repairing the stars, oiling the gates, improving the streets, smoothing the way.
19 thoughts:
Thank you for sharing this. I have not read this before and it's very sweet.
I really like this, lol
Very sweet, Karen. Thank
God for dads. Where would
we be without them?
Great poem for Fathers!
That's was wonderful. I've never seen that before! A new favorite! Thank you!
Hi, Karen! I hope your family enjoyed a wonderful Father's Day!
Thank you for a wonderful sharing about fathers!
Blessings to you, dear friend!
Love,
Andrea
This made me chuckle :)
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Great poem for Father's Day !
Blessings,
~Myrna
That was really sweet, Karen! Thanks for sharing!
Awwww, thanks for sharing Karen.
Hi Karen - I hope your family had a wonderful Father's day. I like the post - I had not seen this before.
Blessings,
Joan
This was great. Thank you so much for your prayers!!
Amen.
Hope you had a great weekend celebrating Fathers.
What a beautiful tribute to fathers. Lovely.
very sweet essay. thank you for sharing this. hope your man had a good father's day.
I liked this. Thanks for sharing and thanks for stopping in to see me the other day. Your prayers are cherished.
Have a Blessed Day,
Sherry
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Have a blessed Independence Day!
That truly is a wonderful tribute to fathers, it has captured so many aspects of fatherhood.
Enjoy your blogging break :)
Beautiful, fatherly thoughts. Thanks for sharing this!
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