Let us Honor our Fathers

Often in the society today, a father is look at as someone that solely provides temporally for the family. A father is the one that goes into work and pays the bills. But a father is so much more than that, they play huge roles in the life of their children. For me personally, my father, is my greatest hero here on this Earth. He has helped with my mom to raise me into the man that I am today. And being a father, I am able to see the importance of being a leader in the family.

What does it mean to be a father? Being a father is not an easy thing to do, you are a great lifeline to those that depend on you. President Ezra Taft Benson said that a father’s calling, “is an eternal calling from which [he is] never released”. Fathers are one primary providers of their family, as circumstances allow. They sacrifice the time that could be spent with their children to allow the nurturing power that mothers carry to fill the home. Fathers play a major role in the development and behavior challenges that their kids may face throughout time.

I recall that my father was always trying to be there for my sporting events growing up. Even when he worked night shifts he would come to my games and show his support and love to me. Little does he know that those sacrifices of when he could have been sleeping a little longer, didn’t go unnoticed. I know that through the effort and example of my father that I am who I am today. In reading the “Successful Marriages and Families” it says that fathers, “For fathers, the fundamental task of parenthood is to be generative, to bless generations.”

Let us honor our fathers as they are doing a great work in taking on the task of building up hard working generations. Fathers are there to help and build the future of our rising generation. With Father’s Day coming up, be sure to let your fathers know that they are loved and appreciated. Give them the knowledge that they have done well with the way that they have raised you, and let them know that their sacrifices were not left unnoticed.