Happy Father’s Day 2025
Josh.24:15
… “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…
But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
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Today is celebrated in this country as Father’s Day.
Father’s Day began in America around 1910.
Most credit “Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane,
Washington, whose father, a Civil War veteran,
raised her and her five siblings after their
mother died in childbirth” for beginning its
observance
(“Father’s Day,” (History.com)
Father’s Day was a religious holiday before
being commercialized by greeting cards and gifts.
It became a national holiday in 1966,
and in 1972 the third Sunday of June was officially
designated Father’s Day.
President Richard M. Nixon made Father’s Day
a federal holiday in 1972.
In the official proclamation, he wrote,
“Let each American make this Father's Day
an occasion for renewal of the love and gratitude
we bear to our fathers, increasing and enduring
through all the years."
Sonora Smart Dodd, who passed away in 1978
at age 96, lived to see her dream become a
national reality.
(Reference.com)
A day when we honor those men who helped
give us life and have nurtured us through life.
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“Cameron Mills reminds
business leaders they are role models”
Children are influenced the most by watching
adults’ actions …
“You have influence whether you want to or not.”
He described an old,
typewritten poem that hung over a door leading
into the old UK men’s basketball locker room,
(Memorial Coliseum, Lexington, KY)
along with other inspirational posters
tacked to the walls.
The page was in an old frame,
“It was nothing impressive,”
except for the words themselves…
- Cameron Mills (1994 -1998)
(Comments excerpted from a speech delivered at
Danville-Boyle County, KY Chamber of Commerce
Luncheon Jan. 2018)
Here's a great reminder that your
Attitudes and actions set an example for many…
This is so applicable for Christian Fathers today!
(H.C.)
Little Eyes upon You…
There are little eyes upon you
And they're watching night and day.
There are little ears that quickly
Take in every word you say.
There are little hands all eager
To do anything you do;
And a little boy who's dreaming
Of the day he'll be like you.
You're the little fellow's model,
You’re the wisest of the wise.
In his little mind about you
No suspicions ever rise.
He believes in you devoutly,
Holds all you say and do;
He will say and do, in your way
When he's grown up just like you.
There's a wide-eyed little fellow
Who believes you're always right;
And his eyes are always opened,
And he watches day and night.
You are setting an example
Every day in all you do;
For the little boy whose waiting
To grow up to be just like you.
- Anonymous
Edited by H.C.
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Teach Your Children – Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DdQs-kejfg
Cats In the Cradle – Harry Chapin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c
