Groundhog Day

Good Morning!

No matter what happens with Punxsutawney Phil or General Lee or any of the other myriad of groundhogs today, all us golfers know it’s just six weeks to Daylight Savings Time!!! I can’t wait to see some of my afternoon golf buddies.

I didn’t take up golf until I was in my fifties. Prior to that, I spent my time with my children as they grew up. It was a joy – on I missed after the last one had moved away and there was just me and Miss N. I know she missed her children as well. We enjoyed our children when they were children. And we enjoy them now as well – just differently.

God wants us to be good parents. He has appointed us with not only seeing after their physical and emotional needs but also seeing to their spiritual development. Father especially have an obligation. Look at the following passage:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (English Standard Version)
4"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.[a] 5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Footnotes:
a. Deuteronomy 6:4 Or The LORD our God is one LORD; or The LORD is our God, the LORD is one; or The LORD is our God, the LORD alone

Moses was addressing this to fathers. Granted it is harder for parents to do this today – fathers in that day and time spent most of the day with their children. In today’s world, fathers and mothers are pulled away to work – and consequently much of their children’s guidance comes from other people. That is why it is vitally important that we make the most of the time we do have with our children – teaching them about the great God that we love.

Agape’


Mr. Jim

Prayer Need:
Terri’s daughter Rachel who was attacked by a Rottweiler last Friday and is experiencing emotional distress.