Happy Father's Day!!

A Little Child
Needs Daddy
~~by Nicholas Gordon

A little child needs Daddy
For many, many things:
Like holding them high off the ground
Where the sunlight sings!

Like being the deep music
That tells them all is right
When they awaken frantic with
The terrors of the night.

Like being the great mountain
That rises in their heart
And showing them how they might get home
When all else falls apart.

Like giving them the love
That is their sea and air,
So diving deep or soaring high
They'll always find him there.

REMOTE-
A-DAD
~~by Shel Silverstein
"Falling Up"

It's just like a TV remote control,
Except that it works on fathers.
You just push the thing that you want
   him to do
And he does it -- without any bother.
You want him to dance? Push number
   five.
You want him to sing? Push seven.
You want him to raise your allowance
   a bit?
You simply push eleven.
You want him quiet? Just hit Mute.
Fourteen will make him cough.
You want him to stop picking on you?
Yelling and telling you what not to do?
And stop bossing you for an hour or
     two?
Just push Power--Off.

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Fishing Tip ~~
Save the Poor Worms
When you fish worms and have leftovers at the end of the day, dump the worms and grass they are packed into a bucket of salt water for a few minutes. They will freshen up and it will clean away their metabolic wastes. Put them back into their container and refrigerate them. They will last several days, hopefully until your next fishing trip. You will save money ($5 per dozen) and you will conserve worms!!
(Then you can take the kids to McDonald's for a Happy Meal and give Mom a break from cooking!! :c)

A Father and a Dad
Are Not the Same:
~~by Nicholas Gordon

A father and a dad are not the same:
One can be a dad and not a father,
Or one can be a father and not bother
To earn through love the more endearing name.
Some find fatherhood a bit too tame,
Leaving all the details to the mother,
Or dumping the sweet burden on another
Man with just a passing twinge of shame.
You have been our dad so many years
That you've become the landscape that is home,
The mountain that we look to from afar.
No matter where we go we're not alone,
For you remain within to still our fears
And be the word that tells us who we are.

"Train children how to live right, and when they are old, they will not change."
~~Proverbs 22:6

"When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need -- words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you. And do not make the Holy Spirit sad. The Spirit is God's proof that you belong to him. God gave you the Spirit to show that God will make you free when the final day comes. Do not be bitter or angry or mad. Never shout angrily or say things to hurt others. Never do anything evil. Be kind and loving to each other, and forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ."
~~Ephesians 4:29-32

"Honor your father and your mother so that you will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you."
~~Exodus 20:12

"What I say is true: Anyone wanting to become an elder desires a good work. He must be a good family leader, having children who cooperate with full respect. (If someone does not know how to lead the family, how can that person take care of God's church?)"
~~1 Timothy 3:1, 4-5

"Children are a gift from the Lord; babies are a reward. Children who are born to a young man are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. Happy is the man who has his bag full of arrows. They will not be defeated when they fight their enemies at the city gate."
~~Malachi 4:6

"Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents. A friend loves you all the time, and a brother helps in time of trouble. A foolish son makes his father sad and causes his mother great sorrow."
~~Proverbs 17, 6, 17, 25

"Correct your children, and you will be proud; they will give you satisfaction. Where there is no word from God, people are uncontrolled, but those who obey what they have been taught are happy."
~~Proverbs 29:17-18

"The father of a good child is very happy; parents who have wise children are glad because of them. Make your father and mother happy; give your mother a reason to be glad."
~~Proverbs 23:24-25

"Do everything without complaining or arguing. Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God's children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world."
~~Philippians 2:14-15

"Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants, because this is the right thing to do. The command says, "Honor your father and mother." This is the first command that has a promise with it -- "Then everything will be well with you, and you will have a long life on the earth." Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
~~Ephesians 6:1-4

DID YOU KNOW???

That the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.

In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.

Roses are the Father's Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has deceased.

Father's Day this year is
Sunday, June 18th, 2000