Little Caleb has been here a week...almost...and he is amazing...check out the new photos...it is strange being a Dad sometimes...It makes you think about your dad...and about other people's dads...and how our relationships with our dads often reflect our relationship with God...I guess it is hard for us to reconcile a loving "Heavenly Father" with our less than perfect dads...but, we are all less than perfect...I am fortunate to have had a great Dad...with flaws, but his loving-kindness, generosity, and self sacrifice made it easy for me to see those traits in God my true Father...but my friends who share my faith in God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit who have had dads that were abusive or absent or apathetic, often have had to come to grips with this Father disconnect...but sometimes it can be a blessing, to truly let God show you what a father is...and wants should be...

I guess it just makes me want to do a good job. To love my kids as much as a flawed man can love. To treat them with kindness and to discipline them...to model a love of God that will infect them...to be real about what life as a disciple of Christ is all about...to pray for them...pray blessings...and not to speak curses over them...pray blessings...to commune with my Father, so they will commune with their Father...

To Dads...from coffee cup #1 Dads to absent sperm donors Dad...thank you for giving us life and helping us take our first step on the road of salvation.

Thank you Father...help me be a father who guides my children to you, Father.