The Love of the Father



A dream coming true that his sons should become better than himself as far as success in career and earnings is concerned. Sadly, my father died in 1975 when I was in my last year of school. When I think about him now, he was a quiet man who enjoyed listening to classical music and opera, enjoyed woodworking and made a desk for me which my daughter is now using.

God gave David a promise that He would build him a sure house — an everlasting kingdom that would be established forever. And through all of David's testings, sins and disgrace, God's purpose was not hindered. Even when shame was heaped on David by his own family and sons, he held onto God's promise and wouldn't let go. Our Heavenly Father loves each of us like there is only one of us.

He has also taught me the power of love and faith. What I loved about him was that he supported my interests and activities (electronics!) as he as was an engineer. I wished I had developed a stronger communication and bond with him in my teenage years – but that is easy to say now that my adolescent years are past. The original plan was that both parents would creatively weave their different ways of loving into a tapestry of knitted emotions, verbal expressions, affectionate displays, and intellectual harmony. There would be no competition, nor lack of love from either side. This type of loving would create a family chemistry that would ride through the roughest storms and sail over the darkest clouds.

Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.” ... See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Every single decision “Daddy-man” has made and he continues to make, is with his daughter’s best interest in mind. He has sacrificed so much of his own life to make sure he gives his daughter what she needs to thrive in the world. While you may know of a lot of single, handsome guys out to impress the ladies with their sports cars or with the latest trend of the day, a new car isn’t even a thought in his mind. This particular dad puts his daughter and her welfare as the top priority on his list of importance, above anyone and anything else. The baby soon began to crawl and then she toddled and then she walked, and when she first said “daddy”, his world was turned upside down with pride! She soon began calling her father “Daddy-man”, a name that stuck throughout her young childhood years, and which even today, as he’s reading this, I’m sure still brings tears of love to his eyes.

Sometimes we expect our kids to know things at their young age that we didn’t learn until much later. It takes a long time before kids have any kind of understanding of who they really are. It’s important to show patience and understanding. In the midst of insecurity and confusion, our love provides gravity. Shutterfly Community is here to help capture and share life's most important moments.

Becoming a father has truly opened my eyes to a fuller understanding of the verses in the bible that talk about God’s love for us. They also found that children who experienced greater father-child physical play, toy play, and active play tended to have better self-regulation and social and emotional well-being. For many fathers, the coronavirus pandemic tightly wove work with family life. Because remote work and remote school were a fact of life for a lot of families, some fathers have spent much more time with their children this past year compared to previous years. Young girls depend on their fathers for security and emotional support.

"When I come home, my daughter will run to the GODLOVE door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away." When we encounter His love, it is an experiential and felt thing. That could be being filled with a rush of peace or experiencing Him in your emotions. God interacts with many of us through our hearts and our feelings. Sarah’s family was radically transformed when her parents encountered the love of God in her teen years.

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. Think for a moment about the power of being loved and accepted by God. This is not a story of someone being rejected by God because they blew it. It is a story of an ever loving, always accepting Father.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Freely we have received and freely we are to give it away to others in all of our relationships.

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