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Sunday, June 19, 2011

BIBLE PICK 'EMS - A Tribute to My Dad

In honor of this special day, I'm sharing a poem I wrote about my dad.

BIG SHOES

When I was small

I used to walk around

in his big shoes,

clumping through the house,

Playing, yes

but also proud of my daddy.

Strong and sure

Always there

to protect me -

Now that I have grown

It seems

that I have spent my life

Trying to follow

in his footsteps...

They are big shoes

to fill.

But he left a path behind

A character road

Footprints

of intelligence,

integrity,

honesty,

and fairness.

In following him

I have learned to be

a leader,

I have learned to be

a better person.

Through the years

some things have changed,

most have not.

I am still proud of my daddy

Strong and sure

Always there

To protect me -

And though his steps

are slowing,

They are still

worth following

And I do -

For I will always be

a young girl

Walking around

in his big shoes...

June 15, 2007

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, Dad!

Know that I have always loved you, and I always will!

***Wishing all you wonderful fathers a very Happy Father's Day!***

"Honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, 'things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.'" (Ephesians 6:2-3)

"When in doubt, search God out!"

9 comments:

Janettessage.blogspot.comJune 19, 2011 at 3:58 AM
Wonderful tribute....I ditto it for my Dad also.
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Anita JohnsonJune 19, 2011 at 6:24 AM
Wow, memories of walking in my Dad's shoes just came flooding back...and a photo of Elliot walking in Bruce's shoe too. Happy Father's Day, Sharon! (-:
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bettyJune 19, 2011 at 8:21 AM
what a beautiful tribute to your father, Sharon! I hope he has a great day and you get to spend some time with him!

betty
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Joan HallJune 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Lovely tribute to your Dad. My Daddy's shoes would be hard to fill - he was a wonderful Christian man who was generous to all.
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DebbieJune 19, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Oh how I LOVE this one! It could have been written by me if I could write poetry. Dad had huge boats for shoes, and we used to like to clomp around in them, too. After he died, we just didn't know what to do with his shoes. In a million ways, we just didn't think anyone could fill them. God provided an answer one day. Maybe I'll blog about it sometime.

You made me cry with this.
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Chatty CroneJune 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM
What a beautiful story and poem about your dad.

I bet he was an amazing man.

I remember at my FIL funeral - my husband forgot his shoes so he borrowed one of his dad's and the thought of finally filling his shoes hit him hard.

Happy Father's Day.
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PamelaJune 19, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Oh, such a beautiful tribute. My girls liked to walk in their dad's shoes when they were little. I'm thankful they can also walk in his spiritual shoes, too.

Blessings,
Pamela
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KerrieJune 19, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Dear Sharon, Reading your beautiful words of love to your daddy has brought tears to my eyes. Sending my love as always and a special hug for your dad on this very special day. God bless you and your loved ones. With love and care from Kerrie. xOx
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SharonJune 21, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Thank you for joining me on Father's Day!

I trust that it was a good day for all the dads in your life.

To those of you who have lost your fathers, I pray that the good memories you hold are comforting. Dads are special, and they have such a special place in our hearts.

And oh, the tremendous love of our Heavenly Father! Is there any other greater gift? He loves us so tenderly, so protectively, so fully. There is no shadow of turning or changing in Him. He watches everything we do, and intimately cares about everything we feel.

He is the ever-present Dad - and I know you join me in gratitude for His eternal and everlasting love and presence in our lives.

He has big shoes to fill - and we can never fill those! But, He gives us the power to fill the shoes He has created JUST FOR US to wear!

GOD BLESS!
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GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

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Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

BIBLE PICK 'EMS - A Tribute to My Dad

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