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James Moran - In Our Father's Hands |
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James Moran reflects on the origin of Father’s Day in 1909 when Sonora Smart Dodd, while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon, felt inspired to honor her father, William Jackson Smart, who had raised her alone when her mother died. In 1926, a Father’s Day Committee started to study the prospect; in 1956 a joint resolution of the Congress proposed an anuual celebration, and in 1972 President Nixon established the third Sunday in June as the annual event we currently observe. As Pam Havir had called her father “Daddy,” the apostle Paul, in Romans 8:15, also encourages us to call our Heavenly Father Abba or Daddy. Metaphorically, we are the clay in the potter’s hands. In Dolly Parton’s song, Daddy’s Hands, we hear a tribute to the steel and velvet aspects of her father’s hands. We are admonished to honor and love our parents, the first commandment with promise. In homes where fathers are absent, delinqency, crime, abuse, promiscuity, and heartache seem to follow. The god of this world wants to destroy society by destroying the father. Thankfully, our Heavenly Father never deserts us. We are all in our Father’s hands. Abba Father - Carnal mind - Daddy - Daddy’s Hands - Dark side - Enmity against God - Eve had a seed of evil - Father’s Day - Full armor of God - Pam Havir - Karate - Potter and clay analogy - Quiet strength - Silver Anniversary of Father’s Day - Sonora Smart - Spirit of adoption - “There was always love in Daddy’s Hands” - Dodd - Virgil Paige - Wheel of life |
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