Happy Father's Day!

If you have been blessed by God to be a father...stop and thank Him now!  Tom and I want to stop and thank our father's for being the best dads ever!  We also stop and praise the Lord for His allowing Tom to be a father to Sarah, Matt and now also Zac.  What an awesome picture of Christ we, along with our children, have because God allowed each of us to have godly dads.

What Makes A Dad

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

"I will open my mouth in a parable;

I will utter dark sayings of old,

 Which we have heard and known,

And our fathers have told us.

We will not conceal them from their children,

But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,

And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done."

Psalm 78:2-4

I wanted to share with you that last weekend when I went upstairs to retrieve a suitcase to pack for our trip to Michigan I was reminded that I hadn't packed a suitcase in exactly a year!  (Except for the few items I would throw in a bag to take back and forth to the hospital when Tom was there.)  I reminisced about our last trip.  We left the beginning of June to fly to Florida for a month of memories.  It was while we were in Florida we celebrated last Father's Day with Tom's dad (top photo of collage) and Sarah and Zac had given Tom his first deck of Skipbo cards.  Sweet memories.  Tom continues to be the "Skipbo King" and it is a huge part of our lives with many games played each day.