I will admit to being a big critic of the dead beat dads of the world. (I am an even bigger critic of the trifilin a$$ moms... but that is another blog all together...) However, I think that on Father's Day we should all take a break from that for a moment and celebrate our fathers.
Mine wasn't always there, but he was there when I needed him. He still is. And that is what is important to me. He is an amazing man He has taught me that a good man is not always perfect. A good man can admit to not being perfect and strive for it by always doing the best he can.
I have friends and family who don't know their dad or have a really negative image of their father.
Guess what... he still did his job.
A father is supposed to teach you what a man is and should be. Sometimes he teaches you that by showing you the exact opposite. GOD didn't put that man in your life (even if it was not for that long) for nothing. He can show you what a man should be by either being it or not being it. I know a lot of men who learned how to be a man by being the exact opposite of what they saw in their Father.
It wasn't until I became a parent that I understood how hard it is. No one is perfect. As a mom I try to teach my son that there is good and there is bad. You have to make the decision to be good in spite of other's doing bad. He is blessed with a dad who is doing his best. He isn't perfect, but who is (other than GOD).
My point is that on Father's Day... be thankful that you had one (else you wouldn't even be here). Don't waste time bashing the bad ones because...
without them... how would we know what a good one looks like???
