it's me!
Indeed I had my first father's day yesterday. It was not really about a celebration and presents for me. Maybe when my son is old enough to hand make me cute presents I will look forward to presents!
I read recently a book from 1922 about 'courage'. It was the written account of a speech by a Rector from a university in the UK to his graduating students. And I picked it up in a second hand bookshop in Byron Bay, Australia - nearly 100 years later. It's funny how God works.
Anyway - one of the premises of 'courage' that he spoke about was having the courage to go against the 'wise counsel' of your "betters". One's 'betters' will always try to dictate how things should be done...to control the world to their own advantage.
Reflecting about this on father's day had me thinking that I need to totally think in new ways about how to be a father. I dont want to revisit the same way to be a father that my own father had (and in hindsight I think he would like ot do it differently too). I need to have the courage to be a father in my own style.
And at church it was reminded to me that even if I dont have an earthly father to guide my ways - I have the perfect example of a father in God.
And that leads to Jesus' upside down thinking.
Despite all this reflection I had a great fathers day. Time with my son, my wife, and my Lord. Very little distractions from the world. Amen to these blessings my Lord.
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