Shade Tree Wisdom 6/17/12 (Father’s Day)

          “Grandchildren are the crown to the aged,
And parents are the pride of their children”. Proverbs 17,6

          So it’s Father’s day, and the paper is filled with advice, with good words remembered, with thoughts said out loud often too late. And it is a day children remember and share their affection with their Fathers. And that’s good to carry through the year too, isn’t it.

          The Commandment is,
    “Thou shalt honor thy father and mother,
     That it may be well with thee,
     And thou mayest live long on the earth.”
St. Paul calls it, “for this is right.”
And I believe we all know that.

          For a loving, caring Father will always be one who does his best to “train up a child in the way He should go.”

          There comes to mind the poem by Longfellow that contains this wisdom
     Lives of great men all remind us
     We can make our lives sublime,
     And, departing, leave behind us
     Footprints on the sands of time;
     Footprints, that perhaps another,
     Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
     A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
     Seeing, shall take heart again.
     Let us, then, be up and doing,
     With a heart for any fate;
     Still achieving, still pursuing,
     Learn to labor and to wait.

          It my prayer this Father’s Day your life reflects that thought in the example you are leaving for those children you cherish.

GPD 6/17/12