THE GIFT OF FATHERS

The morning started with presents and homemade blueberry pancakes, 90 minute massage at a luxurious resort & spa, and ended with a crab & scallop salad and a decadent chocolate cherry mini cake ( made by yours truly ). With Jake being in New Mexico I did my best to make our Kev know what a wonderful father he is. This weekend our church ( CCV ) had a comedian/precher named Michael Jr come for Fathers Day. I laughed so hard but I wasn’t the only one! But, between all the jokes, was this one game he played with some of his other friends. It’s called the “no blame” game. It’s about how his friends suffered greatly because of their fathers. Many people can relate right? For some Fathers Day is a reminder of how bad one can be. But, in this “no blame game” Michael Jr showed his friends how each bad scenario changed his friends lives to be someone different, someone better. And Kev is no exception. His father never went to any of his games or events that Kev played in. With every baseball, football, soccer game Jake played in Kev was there. Kev’s father never really talked, or rather, listened, to him growing up. With all that he knew how to do Kev did his best to make sure Jake knew he was there for him. No father is perfect..some are more damaging than others, but if we were to stop blaming them, and start thanking them for how we turned out better because of their imperfections we could see they were a gift. Jake has turned out to be a kind, generous, caring person who knows how to forgive and to listen because of Kev..not that Kev is perfect but that he has done the very best he knew how to do. And for all the imperfections of our earthly fathers Jesus came in the flesh to show us how to love and be loved…perfectly.