My First Father’s Day!

Today was my first Father’s Day! Wow!I can’t even begin to type out my feelings inside today! It’s such an awesome thing to know that I am a daddy now. It’s also an awesome responsibility. Every night, my wife and I pray with our little one while she drinks her night bottle. She seems to sleep more soundly and peacefully because of this. Anyway, we have been using a book by Germaine Copeland. I think it’s called: “Prayers that Avail Much for your Children”. It’s an awesome book. It has short blessings that you can pray over your child in the morning and in the evening. Anyway, when we pray with her at night, many times I think about what an awesome responsibility it is being a daddy. I had the privilege of preaching the Father’s Day message today at church. I felt so like someone else who has been at this longer could do a better job, but His grace was sufficient!

I was asking the Lord what to preach on during the week, and I kept hearing the word Father. So I took that word and began to just chew on it. I thought about the qualities of our Father in Heaven that we as earthly fathers should emulate. Each letter in the word “Father” stood for a different quality that I preached about in my sermon. Anyway, as I prepared this message, I thanked God for the fact that I as a daddy am not alone in this deal! Just the knowledge that someone who has a ton more experience than me was there to help me, my Heavenly Father through the Holy Spirit; this knowledge was a great comfort to this “newbie” as it were.

As I hold Becca in my arms when she’s sleeping, I wonder sometimes what God has in store for her? She has come down a long journey already, and I know He has a purpose for her life that if I knew the whole of it, it would really blow me away! I look at her and say to the Lord, “How can I be a good enough daddy to her? a good enough example to her? I feel so inadequate!” God then gently reminds me the answer to these questions: :”You can’t, you can’t and you are! That’s why I am here!” And thank God He is there for us! His Son is the best, so I think His Example as a Daddy is probably the best!

My Dad is probably one of the best dads I know on this planet, but I know he would agree with me on the point I just mentioned, and there have been many times when I have needed an answer to a question, that my earthly father and I would go together in prayer to my Heavenly Father and find the answer together!

That’s my prayer today: that I as an earthly father would do like my dad does, and point my child to the Heavenly Father, so that we can seek His answers to the questions of life together.

So, my ultimate destination in this journey of thought that I have taken on this Father’s day is this: “I am not perfect as a dad, but thank God even when I’m not, I know the One Who is! He made me! He made my little girl, and He can help me strive towards perfection as a very amateur newbie of a daddy!”

I hope this made sense. Just had to get my thoughts typed out through my fingers! Thanks for letting me ramble! See ya again soon!

Here’s a picture or two of Becca!:

Her first trip to the beach:

Becca with Daddy at the beach!:

Becca with Daddy at the beach!