Standing on my Soap Box

Well I have been thinking about writing a blog about fathers for a while now. I have been thinking about Dad’s and their daughters. I happen to be a daughter (nothing like stating the obvious). I often hear about fathers and how we as people get our view of God from the relationship we have with our dads.

I have been blessed with an awesome father, and my relationship with him can be totally viewed in the same light as my relationship with God. You see, I was adopted by my dad. My mom is my biological mom, but my dad and I share absolutely no genes. Some people though would argue that there is no way we are not biologically linked. We are very much alike, and I do take after some of the family  traits of the Rempel/Churchill family. We actually laugh when we hear that. We even went to a funeral for my Dad’s aunt and heard some ladies looked at my boys as they were walking by and exclaimed “you sure can tell they are Rempel boys…”

But I digress, back to how my dad is like my heavenly father.

1) God loves me unconditionally – so does my Dad.

2) God adopted me into his family, and so did my Dad. In some countries you can disown your biological children, but you cannot, by law, disown an adopted child.

3) I can do things that can totally frustrate my Dad, and I have absolutely frustrated God. With that in mind, go back to number 1, that states that God loves me unconditionally. It does not matter what I do, both love me unconditionally. It never changed whether or not I was his child. Same with God. I may do things that makes God sorrowful, but I am still his child

4) Choice – My dad had a choice when he found out that my mom had a child, he did not have to join our little family, and yet he choose us. This is the same as being with a child of God. The bible says that He chose us.

Now to speak to Fathers, you are the example of Christ for your children! What kind of example are you giving them? I have seen the effects fathers have on their children both positive and negative. I have seen the effects your anger has on children. A while ago I wrote a blog on how we speak to people, and how words spoken to us specifically from our dad’s has an affect on us. Are you speaking words that your children can live up to, (Good, uplifting words) or are you speaking words that your child will live down to (disrespectful, put downs).

Fathers, is your family a blended family? Ensure that you are treating your spouse’s children the same as you are treating your children. Even if the children have contact with their biological father, you are an example to them as well. How you treat them, and how you treat their mom speaks volumes to them.

So with all this in mind, I would love to uplift Dad’s to our Heavenly Father, and I pray that they will continue to be the example of Christ to their families. I also want to thank MY dad for the example he has been to me. I couldn’t ask for a better Christ like example!