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A - Always trust them to God's care
B - Bring them to church
C - Challenge them to high goals
D - Delight in their achievements
E - Exalt the lord in their presence
F - Frown on evil
G - Give them love
H - Hear their problems
I - Ignore not their childish fears
J - Joyfully accept their apologies
K - Keep their confidence
L - Live a good example before them
M - Make them your friends
N - Never ignore their endless questions
O - Open your home to their visits
P - Pray for them by name
Q - Quicken your interest in their spirituality
R - Remember their needs
S - Show them the way of salvation
T - Teach them to work
U - Understand they are still young
V - Verify your statements
W - Wean them from bad company
X - eXpect them to obey
Y - Yearn for god's best for them
Z - Zealously guide them in biblical truth

I don't know how many of you recently saw an advertisement in a particular magazine for Father's Day. It was an acrostic on the word Father. It reads,

“F” is for your favorite occupation. (A man is pictured asleep in a chair)
“A” is for the anniversaries your blew (mother is shown waiting in vain for father to come home for their anniversary dinner)
“T” is for talk and your sparkling conversation (dad is depicted as reading a newspaper while the children and wife are talking to him)
“H” is for the helpful things that you do (dad is shown poking a ladder through a window)
"E" is for each time you were forgetful (this shows father leaving the pregnant mother standing at the front of the house while he dashes off to the hospital)
“R” is for the recitals that you attended (father is shown as being literally drug to his child's piano recital)

The ad concludes by saying: He may not be a perfect father but he does deserve a perfect gift. Give him an arrow shirt for Father’s Day.

As a father, how would like to be remembered? A man once said that as a child he was terribly afraid of his father. “He was a pretty awesome figure,” he said. “When he spoke that was the end of things. I always imagined if I could hear the voice of God that it would sound like the voice of my father.

Even though this man did not mean to compliment his father, I guess he should have been congratulated for connecting his father in any way with God, even if it was a negative connection. In the book of Proverbs we read these words: Children, hear the instruction of your father. He is the wisdom of God speaking to you….

PRAYER: DEAR LORD, cleanse our hearts of any selfishness because where
self-seeking exist, confusion and greed abide. It can hurt many --
our friends, our family, our community. Remind us that more than
protecting our "rights" is doing the "right thing." Please soften
our hearts without breaking our spirit as we struggle keeping the
peace. Lord, grant us the peace that You alone can give.

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