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Today’s quote is in honor of our fathers: “A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with the snapshots of his kids.”
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I found something quite close to the quote above on line under “author unknown.
Here’s a good quote with a fine author:
* “My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys.” ~Harmon Killebrew, Hall of Fame baseball player
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Joel Mark: Enjoy your iced coffee!
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My own Dad passed on in 2003. He is remarkable mainly for all the non-remarkable yet nevertheless these days rarely achieved achievemts in his life.
Men of his era who stayed true to the vows even in marriages to less than vow-worthy wives are some of our nation’s greatest heroes
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My Dad passed in 1997, almost 11 years ago. I still think of him every day. He had his problems, as do we all, but he stuck to his responsibilities the best he could and prevailed. I’m grateful for that lesson.
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I love that quote, Joel, and it is so true!
My great-grandfather wound up raising seven children alone after his second wife died. His tiny house in a village in the upper mountains of Utah became the local hangout on Saturday nights during the 1920’s because he let the kids remove the furniture to dance
“Hey, Conrad,” the neighbors used to say. “Aren’t you afraid of them kids wearin’ out your linoleum?”
In his laconic way, he’d look down from his great height and shake his head. “We’ll just buy a new floor when this one is gone.”
I can’t think of a better reason to replace the floor.
Here’s to great dads who understand what’s really important.
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My dad died in June 1984, weeks before my 17th birthday, with three of us teens still under his roof, leaving his wife of 30-plus years to finish raising us alone. (That was a job Mom didn’t want–she’d looked forward to being able to travel with Dad once we were all grown, and this change in her plans was more than she could really handle.)
He was a small man, would make Barney Fife look large. Powerfully built, strong and healthy beyond his appearance, he worked tirelessly for his bosses and again at home. He fixed whatever was broken, built whatever sheds and porches needed building, and twiddled his thumbs whenever he sat down. If he sat down for long, he fell asleep and snored. He was a small man, and never got much of anywhere, humanly speaking.
But he reared seven children on small wages without government handouts, had seven children move on to honorable adulthood. So far his legacy also includes 19 grands and great-grands, though he met no more than three grandchildren . . . and did see a picture of his (then) youngest, his first redhead from my mom’s redheaded genes, who was a month old when he died.
Faithful to his wife and family, faithful to his God as well as he knew how, and then caught up too soon (from this world’s perspective) at age 67, June 5, 1984. I wish I could have known him as an adult.
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My atheist dad died seven years ago. He came to the Lord in the last year and a half of his life. At the moment of his death the room was so filled with the presense of the Lord it was tangible.
I can’t listen to “You Can Let Go Now Daddy” without balling, so I have quit country radio until that song is played much. That’s worse than driving and talking on a cell phone!
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My dad, Jack Kraussmann, died Dec. 28, 2004. Though not a Christian, he was a man of integrity & goodwill. He wasn’t much for mushy words, but the look of pride & love in his eyes when he looked at me was all I needed.
I miss him a lot, & hope that somehow he surrendered himself to God in his final hours.
My heart goes out to Kim, whose loss is still so fresh & painful.
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I wrote a really long piece about the memorial service yesterday and it didn’t post. I just don’t have it in me to write it out again today. I will have to say that one of the worlds best dads left his daughter this past week and my world will never be the same.
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers as I joined all of the rest of you who lost their own personal greatest dad.
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Israelinsider has a piece on Obama’s muslim upbringing. Apparently they’ve been reading those emails that Obamas new smear fighting site calls false. Nice picture of BO in muslim garb too.
http://tinyurl.com/5anmyn
“Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt — contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.”
Is there any room left under the Obama bus? I think BO’s half brother is gonna find out.
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It will be interesting, AJ, to see if Barack Hussein Obama now “Jeremiah Wrights” his brother.
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I’m not really bothered by it, if he was raised a muslim. Let’s face it, children don’t usually get to pick their religon, the parents do. What bothers me is that it appears that he keeps lying about it.
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That’s the same problem Bill Clinton had — lying about about dong something that many people wouldn’t even consider all that wrong in the first place. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Willy had sex with an intern in the Oval Office, he committed perjury by lying about it later.
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13 Outkast:
How much longer do you think the Clinton marriage will be held together? She doesnt really need him anymore, I’d imagine.
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Today’s WSJ has several Father’s Day articles. One is a nice essay by Juan Williams, the other is a heart-felt appreciation of a dad’s tough, old-fashioned love.
What I lament about my Dad’s own passing was its suddenness. We had no time to prepare, just an early morning phone call. So often since then I find myself thinking about what I would have asked, had I only known. It’s a hole that doesn’t ever really close up. or at least not yet.
Kim — knowing the ache that is there, I pray that you find those who can testify to your father’s love for you, and who will continue to walk with you in your loss.
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Can someone tell me what Whirled Views is?
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Welcome, Opinionated.
Whirled Views is an open-ended forum here where we can bring up any subject we want. Some of the most personal entries are on here, from people who consider each other a community. But if you want to bring up a topic not discussed elsewhere in WOW, that’s welcome here.
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Ohhhh…..thanks, Beth D.
On the subject of fathers, my dad’s motto is “Anything for an interesting life.”
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Nos. 10-13: The lies that the good Christians will be telling about Barack Obama are going to make the Swift Boat Veterans of 2004 look like angels.
This is going to be an ugly one … glad to see you guys wasting no time embracing the smears.
Jesus must be so proud.
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Steve G,
If anyone lies (or is misinformed), it would be good to point it out. But please don’t assume that anything bad said about Obama is a lie. I have a pretty good sense that this election season is going continue to be ugly because of the truth, not lies. But again, I’m sure most of us would like to have it called to our attention if anything that’s posted is a lie. (Just don’t say “That’s a lie” when you mean “Ew that’s nasty, and they shouldn’t say that.” Say “That’s not true, and here’s the evidence” when something actually is untrue.)
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Saw: That’s a good question. Hillary doesn’t appear to need Bill any longer, as evidenced by the fact all the campaigning he did for her this year didn’t help her secure the nomination in ‘08.
However, I think if Hillary is going to continue to try to appear as a “conservative” and draw in (fool) the “family-value crowd” she’s going to want to continue to show “forgiveness” by remaining married to Bill. After all, Slick Willy still appears to have a rock-star status whenever he appears somewhere to speak.
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Well Cheryl … there’s no evidence that Obama was raised a Muslim. He says he wasn’t. Fox News already tried floating that with his early-life school enrollment, and it was thoroughly debunked.
You should ask yourself: why are some people determined to believe it and to grasp at any shred of hope that it’s true, when it quite clearly isn’t?
And also: Even if he had been “raised a Muslim” for the first few years of his life, what difference would it make?
The whole issue is a lame attempt to play on ignorant fears. There is a paranoid belief in some quarters that he is a “secret Muslim” with terrorist connections and a hidden plan to do America harm, and stupid stuff like what AJ raised and Outkast predictably chortled over plays right into.
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Steve G,
I have no idea whether there’s credible evidence of that or not. I don’t exactly think it’s “irrelevant”–it might actually be good to have a leader with that background if he had repudiated it, bad if he had not. But apparently others on this thread have seen some sort of evidence, credible or otherwise, and so to quickly say, “There’s no evidence” isn’t exactly true. You might be able to say, “Here’s proof that that evidence is weak,” but apparently you can’t really say, “There’s no evidence.” (FYI, I’m making a distinction between “evidence” and “proof” and between “evidence” and “truth.” The blue dress was evidence that Bill Clinton wasn’t telling the truth…but it wasn’t proof until the DNA tests came back.)
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The man on the radio said that there are more collect calls made on father’s Day than any other.
Do people still make collect calls? I have never received one that I remember. And I haven’t made one since I got out of the AF in 1952.
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God has a way of taking care of things. Today is my first Father’s Day. I woke up sometime after midnight to realize that and started to feel sorry for myself. Chloe woke up about that time sick. She threw up all over the house for a couple of hours. Completely forgot to feel sorry for myself. Just 15 more hours to go.
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Happy Father’s Day all you fathers out there. I hope those with older children can reflect on a job well done, enjoying the fruits of your efforts and those with younger will make the effort to serve Christ in serving their children, bringing them up in the way they should go.
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Cheryl: If there were real, credible evidence of it, don’t you think he’d have been confronted with it in a big way by now?
Here is one good debunking.
The thing is, you’re going to hear people claim that Obama is a secret radical Muslim, and you’re going to hear people say he’s a crazy Christian based on his history with Trinity UCC. In some cases you’ll hear the same people saying both, heedless of the contradiction.
They don’t care about the truth, they just care about discrediting a politician they don’t like by any means available. They will bear their false witness with gleeful smiles and then go sit smugly in their pews and think themselves righteous.
It should be truly sickening for any real Christian to watch.
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Friends,
At my new group blog American Creation we have a post that embeds a great video Stephen Waldman of Beliefnet did on his new book about the Founding Fathers. Waldman’s view closely parallels mine: It is a nuanced middle ground between what you commonly hear from the secular left and religious right. And he agrees with me that the key Founders were neither Deists nor orthodox Trinitarian Christians, but somewhere in between (essentially “unitarians” or “theistic rationalists”).
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Kim, it will take time. It took me over a year to get right again. Coca-cola stock went up that year because I needed a coke to settle my stomach first thing in the morning. My father’s death was a physical shock to my system, felt right to the tips of my fingers and toes. I remembered all sorts of things about my father that came pouring out for a long time. My best friend and I would sit on the boardwalk (sometimes we still do) reminiscing about our dads. Your Dad will never leave you, and you will find yourself referring to what he would have done in this or that situation all time now. Enjoy those memories.
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Thanks NJL. I am remembering little things. Some little ditties he taught me that my mother had a screaming fit over
Chas will appreciate that my lunch today will be tomato gravy and rice and purple hull peas and speckled butterbeans. All cooked with REAL bacon. I am currently on the high fat high carb diet, but it makes me feel good to eat something that he would have made such a pig of himself over. Chloe called her dad this morning to wish him a Happy Father’s day but he was sleeping in. The old geeser had his 30th high school reunion last night!!!
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Kim, I envied your lunch. Where do you find speckled butterbeans anymore?
You and George need to take the advice your boss gave.
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