As Father’s Day approaches, I just happened across a few verses and thoughts that pertain to this great day.  I think we ought to honor our father’s (Honor thy mother and thy father…) but many may not have great father’s–or families for that matter.  And, I think father’s ought to be honored to the degree to which their lives have been honorable.  On these holidays, people often resort to this surface level honoring that merely glazes over hurts and hard family situations.  I don’t think we ought to make Father’s day into a day that we drudge up all the bad and evil that exists in our relationships with our Fathers.  Rather, I do think father’s day ought to be a day of gratitude and praise that, while we acknowledge the difficulties of our relationships, we set aside or look past those things and celebrate what we can, to the degree to which is proper.  And, if there is very little to praise or be thankful for, we may mourn but we are not left without our Father in Heaven, whom we are told cares deeply for his children (Matt. 7:7-11, Luke 11:11-14, James 1:16-17, John 3:14-17).

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