It is wonderful to pause once a year to reflect on the role that fathers play in the lives of their children and in this world.
The father role is an important one in our lives. Having a good father is a blessing. Having an absent or unskilled father leaves wounds and scars that we can spend a life time working out.
Even if we had a hard time with our own fathers, we can appreciate the 'fathering' that we've received along the way. We can receive loving father energy from anyone really.
I was blessed in my life to have a great dad. He taught me many wonderful things about how to live life and become the person that I am today. I always feel a little nostalgic around father's day, because we used to take a trip to Reno every year around this time to have a little father/daughter time and to gamble a little bit. :)
Dad passed away in 1997, and I still miss him.
On father's day, I like to not only give thanks for my own father, and all he gave me, but also to the other men in my life who have shown me love, support, tenderness and compassion. Those men have all contributed to my life in special and meaningful ways as well.
My Dad
Me with my Grandpa Drazdoff
Uncle David
Dr. Charles Bruni
Jack Boland
Happy Father's Day to all you men out there! Give yourselves credit for the fathering that you have done - with your own children and with others as well!
