Father's Day
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
by Dianne Lehmann
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In many ways, I don't feel qualified to write an article about fathers or Father's Day. I lost my birth father when I was almost 17 years old (August 4, 1969), my father-in-law on December 5, 2005 and my step-dad just this January on the 6 th . I am fatherless.
All my perspectives on fathers and what they might mean are no longer contemporary or topical. Unfortunately, I did not have a lot of contact with my step-dad in the last years before he died. I will say this though, I do sometimes envy people who still have their fathers in their lives. I would like to know my birth father now, from the standpoint of the wisdom I have learned over the years. I would like to be able to take the time to know him outside of my ancient childish self-centeredness.
Father's Day is a day, one day a year, set aside for us to let our fathers know how much they mean to us. But in reality, we should do this as often as we can. It is not always old age or disease that takes them away from us. It could happen at any moment. My girlfriend's father just totaled his car a few days ago. That the airbag saved his life was the assessment of the authorities that came to the scene. He is okay, but it could have easily been a more serious outcome.
While I don't really feel qualified to speak about fathers, I feel qualified in speaking to how we should treat and appreciate them. I'll sum it up in one simple sentence: You can never let them know often enough how much they mean to you. So if, like I did, you do this only this one time a year, be darn sure that you do.
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