Today is Thursday, June 15th, 2006; Karen's Korner #824
One more story from the book "Inspiring Stories an Angel Might Tell" which I received from friends at my birthday.
Special for Fathers' Day.
A Father Is........
A father is a person who is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic. He growls when he feels good and laughs very loud when he is scared half to death.
A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child's eyes. He is never quite the hero his daughter thinks. Never quite the man his believes him to be. And this worries him sometimes. So he works too hard to try to smooth the rough places in the road of those of his own who will follow him.
A father is a person who goes to war sometimse....and would run the other way except that wat is part of an important job in his life, which is making the world better for his child than it has been for him.
Fathers grow older faster than other people, because they, in other wars, have to stand at the train station and wave goodbye to the uniform that climbs on board.
And, while mothers cry where it shows, fathers stand and beam...outside....and die inside.
Fathers are men who give daughtes away to other men who aren't nearly good enough so that they can have children that are smarter than anybody's.
Farthers fight dragons almost daily. They hurry away from the breakfast table off to the arena, which is sometimes called an office or a workshop.
There they tacke the dragon with three heads. Weariness, Works, and Monotony. And they never quite win the fight, but they never give up.
Knights in shining armor; fathers in shiny trousers. There's little difference as they march away each workday.
And when Father passes away, and after a good rest, he won't just sit on a cloud and wait for the girl he's loved and the children he bore. He'll be busy there too.....repairing the stairs, oiling the gates, improving the streets, smoothing the way.
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