Tho'ts On Fathers

Tomorrow is Father's Day - a day that hardly compares to Mother's Day in America - though it should.  Unfortunately, our country's values for the family, for the society, and for the nation, have essentially disintegrated over the last several decades, and our current decade has not been able to see a slow-down in descent.  So fathers, men, and boys are suffering a stereotype prejudice against them which renders them hopelessly impotent to hold their own in a gender- and role-confused society.  Boys are raised as girls, to get in touch with their "feminine side."  The media portrays men as bumbling idiots who are good for nothing but being beer-guzzling couch potatoes and certainly impotent as the family provider and protector - a job left to Mom (who also has to do the Mommy stuff like clean house, care for kids, and the like).  There is a Super Mom, but no Super Dad.

 

The families are splitting up, divorce is growing, and single-parent (mother-led) homes are on the increase.  Men won't get married, but set up house with their girl-friends.  It seems like most people I know my age have been in at least one marriage other than the one they may currently be in - as though divorce is as much a rite of passage as getting a driver's license, High School graduation, and paying taxes.

 

So where are the real fathers?  They are all around.  To you men, I say, stand up.  Be a man.  Don't put up with this anymore.  Let's show these media-types what a real man is all about.  Let's love our wives, care for them and protect them.  Let's love our children, teaching and playing with them, spending real time with them.  Let's be honest, trustworthy, faithful, loyal, and true.  Most of all, let's be Godly, leading our families in a right relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, our Rock and Redeemer - and we certainly need to be redeemed!