Happy Father’s Day
by chuckofish
“Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children! The fact of their being children implied their need of an all-powerful father: must there not then be such a father? Therewith the truth dawned upon him, that first of truths, which all his church-going and Bible-reading had hitherto failed to disclose, that, for life to be a good thing and worth living, a man must be the child of a perfect father, and know him. In his terrible perturbation about his children, he lifted up his heart—not to the Governor of the world; not to the God of Abraham or Moses; not in the least to the God of the Kirk; least of all to the God of the Shorter Catechism; but to the faithful creator and Father of David Barclay. The aching soul which none but a perfect father could have created capable of deploring its own fatherly imperfection, cried out to the father of fathers on behalf of his children, and as he cried, a peace came stealing over him such as he had never before felt.”
― George MacDonald, Heather and Snow
Happy Fathers Day to all you good fathers out there and grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.
dual personalities 
Lovely quote…but are you sure that isn’t God, the Creator…I mean, you wouldn’t want to exclude anyone by making God male, right? OR NOT! (As you can tell, I’m still obsessing about my pastor’s jarring pronoun changes…). Save me Rhonda.
I have no problem whatsoever with a male deity. As you know, I like to think of him as Ralph Richardson…
What’s wrong with us? We’re just not progressive enough!
Well this certainly isn’t very PC, now is it? This father, both God and Man, has a very tough time remaining relevant in the modern world of “helicopter moms.”
Nobody has mentioned the humor of the Ward Cleaver picture–because he was always trying to be the perfect dad and was comically not perfect. But he tried and that was what was important! (Only God can be the perfect Father.)
I think my cynicism is showing…