Happy Fathers Day to all you men out there that have ’stepped up to the plate’ to be “Dad’s” to the children in your life. Like they say - ANYONE can be a father,…but it takes a very committed and special person to be a “DAD”!
The History of Fathers Day -
Sonora Dodd, of Washington, first had the idea of a “father’s day.” She thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909.
Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.
After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, supported the idea of a national Father’s Day. Then in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day. President Richard Nixon signed the law which finally made it permanent in 1972.
I CELEBRATE ALL “DAD’S” TODAY - and I have a special place in my heart for the Grandfathers that have stepped into the role again of full-time father to their grandchildren….THANK YOU! THANK-YOU! THANK-YOU!
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Here’s Some great “Fathers Day Quotes” :
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” — William Shakespeare
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” ~Harmon Killebrew
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad
~Author Unknown
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. Thanks Dad ~Dinah Craik
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
