WHEN THE LORD WAS CREATING FATHERS,           
HE STARTED WITH A TALL FRAME.

AND AN  ANGEL NEARBY SAID,      
WHAT KIND OF FATHER IS THAT?

IF  YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE CHILDREN SO CLOSE 
TO THE GROUND, 
WHY HAVE YOU PUT FATHER UP SO HIGH?
HE WON'T BE ABLE TO SHOOT MARBLES 
WITHOUT KNEELING, 
OR KISS AND TUCK A CHILD IN BED 
WITHOUT BENDING.

GOD SMILED AND SAID, YES, BUT IF I MAKE HIM CHILD SIZE,
WHO WOULD CHILDREN HAVE TO LOOK UP TO?

AND WHEN GOD MADE FATHER'S HAND, 
THEY WERE VERY LARGE AND STRONG.

AND THE ANGEL SHOOK HIS HEAD SADLY AND SAID,                            
 "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING?       

                                          
LARGE HANDS ARE CLUMSY.                                                                    
RUBBER  BANDS OR  PONYTAILS OR EVEN 
   BASEBALL BATS."                                                     

GOD SMILED AND SAID,                                                
  "I KNOW, BUT THEY'RE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOLD EVERYTHING A SMALL SON EMPTIES FROM HIS POCKETS AT THE END OF THE DAY... YET SMALL ENOUGH TO CUP A DAUGHTERS FACE IN HIS HANDS."

 THEN GOD MOLDED LONG, SLIM LEGS 
AND BROAD SHOULDERS.

"BOY, THIS IS THE END OF THE WEEK, ALL RIGHT!" 
HE SIGHED, " DO YOU REALIZE YOU JUST MADE A FATHER WITHOUT A LAP?  

 

HOW IS HE GOING TO PULL A CHILD CLOSE AND HOLD HIM  WITHOUT THE KID FALLING                 BETWEEN HIS LEGS?"

 GOD SMILED AND SAID, "A FATHER  NEEDS STRONG SHOULDERS TO PULL A SLED,
 BALANCE A BOY ON A BICYCLE,
 OR HOLD A SLEEPY HEAD ON THE WAY HOME 
FROM THE CIRCUS."

GOD WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF CREATING TWO OF THE LARGEST FEET ANYONE HAD EVER SEEN 
WHEN THE ANGEL COULD CONTAIN HIMSELF NO LONGER.

" THAT'S NOT FAIR! DO YOU HONESTLY THINK
 THOSE LARGE THINGS ARE  GOING TO DIG OUT OF BED 
EARLY IN THE MORNING WHEN THE BABY CRIES? 

OR WALK THROUGH A SMALL BIRTHDAY PARTY 
WITHOUT CRUSHING AT LEAST THREE OF THE GUEST?"

 GOD SMILED AND SAID, 
"THEY'LL WORK.  YOU'LL SEE. 

THEY'LL SUPPORT A SMALL CHILD WHO WANTS TO
 RIDE A HORSE TO THE KITCHEN AND BACK, OR SCARE OFF MICE AT THE SUMMER CABIN, OR DISPLAY SHOES THAT WILL BE  A CHALLENGE TO FILL."

GOD WORKED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, GIVING THE FATHER FEW  WORDS, BUT A FIRM, AUTHORITATIVE VOICE; EYES THAT SAW EVERYTHING,  BUT REMAINED CALM AND TOLERANT.

FINALLY, ALMOST AS AN AFTER  THOUGHT, 
HE ADDED----TEARS.

THEN HE TURNED TO THE ANGEL AND SAID, 
"NOW THERE YOU HAVE IT,  THE COMPLETE D

 AND THE ANGEL, SHUTETH UP.

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"Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a DAD!"

"The most important thing a father can do
for his children is to love their mother."
~Henry Ward Beecher~
(1813-1887)about dads about fathers

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it...
Dad
~Author Unknown~

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child

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Some Dads have different hair and  some shave their  head Most  Dads at one time  had brown hair or black blond or red

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child fathers day  dads day fathers day poem

"The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" ~Author Unknown~

Dads have  all kinds of different jobs

A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you are

"The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" ~Author Unknown~

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
~Ephesians 6:4~

QUOTES ABOUT FATHERS

A wise son maketh a glad father.~Proverb 4:1~

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong".~Charles Wadsworth~

If the new American fathers feel bewildered and even defeated,
let them take comfort from the fact that whatever they do in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~Bill Cosby~

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare

It's easy for a father to hear himself talking All he has to do is listen to his children!

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys. --- Anon

"The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" ~Author Unknown~

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." ~Author Unknown~

"If the hat is missin'...I've gone fishing."

A father is a banker provided by nature. ~ French Proverb

Grandparents are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
~Ogden Nash~
(American humorist)

Hell hath no fury like a Dad whose tools are messed up.

"To her the name of father was another name for love." ~By Fanny Fern~

"Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk." -Grantland Rice

"It's still good sportsmanship to not pick up lost balls while they are still rolling." -Mark Twain
"Golf is good walk spoiled." -Mark Twain

When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;
when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
~I Corinthians 13:11~

"A man's children and his garden both reflect
the amount of weeding done during the growing season."~Author Unknown~

"It doesn't matter who my father was;
it matters who I remember he was."~Anne Sexton~
(1928-1974)

Dad ~ a son's first hero ~ a daughter's first love

"Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health,
so study without a liking for it spoils the memory,
and it retains nothing it takes in."
~Leonardo da Vinci~

"Fathers, like mothers, are not born.
Men grow into fathers-
and fathering is a very important
stage in their development."
~David M. Gottesman~

It's easy for a father to hear himself talking
All he has to do is listen to his children!

More than a father, more than a friend
Our love has no limit, our friendship no end

God couldn't be everywhere so he created Fathers and Grandfathers.

Living is like shaving - no matter how good you do it today
you still have to do it again tomorrow.quotes about fathers

That is the thankless position of the father in the family;
the provider for all and the enemy of all.
~J. August Strindberg~
(Swedish writer)

"They didn't believe their father had ever been young;
surely even in the cradle he had been a very, very small man in
a gray suit, with a little dark mustache and flat, incurious eyes."
~Richard Shattuck~

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet
where his money used to be."
~Author Unknown~

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs
in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful
friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.
~Benjamin Franklin~

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish
to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern
may not be lost to the world.
~Helen Rowland~

A man knows he is growing old because he begins
to look like his father.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez~

"I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener."
~John 15:1~

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
~Proverbs 4:1~

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your
Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"
~Matthew 7:11~

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
~Matthew 15:14~

"There is nothing which we receive with so
much reluctance as advice."
~Joseph Addison~

"To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if
they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not to respect
them is to treat them as if they were household pets."
~Menicius~

Becoming a father isn't difficult,  But it's very difficult to be a father.

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