Father's day musing

OK, this is a musing that will be the basis of my sermon introduction tomorrow. I thought it was pretty good so I thought I'd share it.

In God's amazing plan it takes two people, one of each sex, to make a baby, a new life. Somehow the Trinity of God is like that two. At creation in Genesis 1 we find God the Father, the Spirit moving over the waters, and the Word. God's three persons, different yet alike, were all a part of creation. And so God made the creation of new life to involve one man and one woman, the same species and yet different.

And two people together, male and female, are the best parents for a child. Two men cannot create a child and having two fathers is not the optimum way of raising a child either.

We celebrate Mother's Day. It is only right that we celebrate fathers too. They are both necessary, each important in different ways.

Often a daughter is the gleem of daddy's eye. She can do no wrong. A son gets a model of what he will be like when he grows up. Often, without even realizing it, he takes on the mannerisms of his father when he is grown. So a dad has to be careful that he does not spoil his daughter and that he set the right example for his son. The lack of a dad in a child's life growing up leaves a big hole.

If you have children you never stop being their dad.