My Father, My Vicar, My Friend

Influences from Daddy’s Walk

By Pamela Wheeler Storz on Father’s Day to Samuel Wayne Wheeler

June 19, 2011

 

• Real men enjoy cooking, music, the arts, and sports; while able to hold and rock you when you’re scared, and fix the broken car, guitar, or curling iron.
• Conventional isn’t always necessarily correct, but necessary.
• It’s okay to color inside the lines, neatly, if you want.
• Feel honored to be wherever you are.
• Manners, please.
• A quiet corner is not necessary to enjoy a good book.
• Always look your best for God’s house and God’s presence. There is no such thing as a “casual” presence of the Lord.
• Go to church. Just go.
• Music has great powers of transformation.
• Make a joyful noise!
• In order to affect change, begin with yourself.
• There is always an occasion to wear a hat.
• Sun-bad. Shade-good!
• Don’t be so free-spirited that you cause pain to others.
• It’s fine to call your dad “hon.”
• Face adversity by humbly kneeling, then keep marching.
• Engage strangers, but don’t be flirty.
• Make sure your animals always have plenty of water.
• Take lots of pictures, and remember that each one has a story.
• Try to remember the story to each picture.
• Even if opinions differ, they are all worthy of attention, and do not change love for one another.
• Purist-good; snob-bad.
• Surround yourself with music from all over the world, and all walks of life.
• Practice endless compassion.
• Learn how to gently correct a loved one’s path.
• There is never a bad time for a nap (unless you’re behind the wheel of a moving vehicle).
• Don’t allow good writing to become a lost art. Write, write, and write some more—someone, somewhere will eventually appreciate your ability.
• Use the necessary tools available to get the job done (screwdriver, shovel, thesaurus, dictionary, the web).
• Even when not to do so makes you squirm internally, don’t ever edit someone else’s speech or feelings.
• Be sweet and behave.
• Smile always, laugh often.

 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, no sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:1,2.

 

Happy Father’s Day, Daddy--I love you!