The singer will tell you “that we will be together always” but it isn’t always so. If your Father is alive and is well, thank your many blessings in life, and reach out to him this day. He will not always be here for you and there will come a day, when you will miss him so, and there will no longer be time to say so.
I always think of the Harry Chapin Song, “Cat’s In The Cradle” on this day, it just seems appropriate.
One Sunday in May 1910, Sonora Smart Dodd was sitting in church in Spokane, Washington, listening to a sermon about the merits of mothers. Sonora wondered why she had never heard any sermons about Dads.
Her own father, a widower named William Smart, had raised six children all alone.
Believing dads should have their day.
Dodd proposed setting aside a Sunday in June to honor fathers. The very first father’s day was celebrated in Spokane on June 19, 1910 when Dodd rode down Main Street in a horse-drawn carriage and delivered gifts to fathers all over town.
Unlike Mother’s Day, however, Father’s Day remained unofficial until 1972, when President Richard M Nixon finally proclaimed it a national holiday.
If you cannot be there personally this day, pick up the telephone and give him a ring, I am sure he would appreciate it.
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Aaaah how I wish I could pick up the telephone and give him a ring. Alas, there is no telephone in Heaven.
From page 69 of my novel: A Curious State of Affairs – Jan Marshall
“Sometimes I sit there daydreaming at my desk – imagining what it would be like if there was a phone line to Heaven – can you imagine the queue to use it? I rehearse what I’d say, go over and over it in my head, refining it, getting it just right so I can say the maximum amount in the minimum time. It’s hard knowing what order I’s say things if time is limited ….”
Comment by Author — June 15, 2008 @ 5:45 AM
please change “ne like” to “be like” ! Ta!
Comment by Author — June 15, 2008 @ 5:47 AM
My dad has been gone for 23 years now. I miss him still. I was lucky enough to have a great father and so now every day is Father’s Day as I remember him and what he taught me.
Comment by James W. — June 15, 2008 @ 10:48 AM
[1] There is no telephone in heaven, nice line, I always say there is no medicine chest in heaven, and the really great thing, the best thing of all … If you wish to speak to the Lord, there is no voice mail or call waiting!
Thanks so much for sharing the excerpt from your book, it was nice.
I made the changes for you girl, but most of the time that isn’t a problem, we got the message, it was NBD.
DS
[2] Hello James, mine has been gone for some 14 years, and surprisingly, I posted this on another site and then main thrust over there was “how long they had been gone” and not “what they had taught them, shared with them, encouraged them to do” stuff like that. Which I thought was the main idea of the post to begin with.
But a lot of the time, I miss the mark, I dunno?
I did get a card from one boy and nothing from the other, so I guess I am appreciated 50% of the time. They called their mother and said they wanted ME to have a nice holiday.
Figure that one out?
DS
Comment by Don Smith — June 16, 2008 @ 7:35 AM