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Father’s Day<\/strong> ~\u2020~<\/p>\n Father and Daughter by Enigma Photos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There was an old song, \u201cI want a girl, just like the girl, that married dear ol\u2019 Dad.\u201d\u00a0 It could also be sung, \u201cI want a boy, just like the boy, that married my dear Mom.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014 Because that is what 99% of the young women who marry, marry!<\/p>\n Fathers take note of this because you one day will have sitting at your Thanksgiving dinner table and every other holiday, including all the Father\u2019s Days from now until your expiration date, a man who closely resembles you \u2013 your son-in-law(s).<\/p>\n Your daughter may think that she is going to pick someone who is far better than you (every person has their faults) but 99% of your personality will reoccur in her husband.<\/p>\n Dads, if you don\u2019t like the men your daughters are dating, ask yourself, why is she picking them?<\/p>\n My dad was a god-fearing man.\u00a0 He was devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ and he behaved like a god-fearing man.<\/p>\n I was very fortunate he was a devoted Christian.\u00a0 He made a great father.\u00a0 He was an explicitly Christian with a fair sense of high moral values.\u00a0 He never hid his faith from anyone.\u00a0 For example, we prayed in restaurants before every meal.<\/p>\n He lived by a Christian moral code of ethics, even when it was risky.\u00a0 When the sand and gravel company he worked for began cheating on the weights of how much product was on the truck as compared with the invoice, he refused to allow the incorrect weight to be put on his invoice tickets.\u00a0 He nearly lost his job over that.\u00a0 Folks, he didn\u2019t have a union backing him.\u00a0 My mother and him spent many hours in prayer over that.\u00a0 Fortunately, my dad didn\u2019t lose his job, but he obeyed God, rather than man, like Peter said we must in the Book of Acts, regardless of the cost.\u00a0 (Acts 5:29)<\/p>\n My dad wasn\u2019t a rich man.\u00a0 He never made more than $3,000 in a year.\u00a0 Nevertheless, every Sunday, the tithe went into the church\u2019s envelop because he knew that it was going to serve God.\u00a0 He told me many times that if he were a rich man, he wouldn\u2019t spend his money on big houses, boats, and expensive automobiles.\u00a0 He would give it to poor people who needed it.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t just talk the talk, he walked the walk.\u00a0 (Matthew 6:7, James 1:22-25)<\/p>\n When a story would appear in the local newspaper about an unfortunate person, my parents would always send cash in an envelop to the person mentioned in the story.\u00a0 Never a check.\u00a0 Checks cost money to write and they didn\u2019t waste a cent.<\/p>\n My dad was not a demonstrative man as far as hugs and kisses goes, he was of German descent, but his best trait was that he loved.\u00a0 Not with hugs and kisses, but with deeds and actions.\u00a0 (Matthew 6:6,16)\u00a0 Not only did he give to strangers in need, he gave to every relative who needed aid.\u00a0 When my aunt asked him to put a bathroom inside her house, he did.\u00a0 He paid for it.\u00a0 There was a time, even in big cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Columbus, etc., houses built on city-sized postage stamp lots didn\u2019t have indoor plumbing!<\/p>\n My dad went to work everyday at a very hard job.\u00a0 [1 Timothy 5:8]\u00a0 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.<\/p>\n When I was very young he drove a truck hauling coal for a living.\u00a0 It was a dirty job and a very hard one.\u00a0 They not only hauled coal, they had to wrap dirty coal into packages for those who could afford to buy packaged coal.\u00a0 Eventually, gas furnaces replaced coal and he was without a job for a long while.\u00a0 He looked towards and sought God in prayer and finally got a job driving for a sand and gravel company.<\/p>\n My dad was a man filled with skills.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t come from schooling, he only had a sixth-grade education.\u00a0 I know his wisdom came from God and through the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 (Proverbs 2:6) My dad fixed things \u2013 anything that broke, he fixed it.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have a lot of money to buy new things so he fixed whatever broke and kept it running.<\/p>\n My family, my mom, dad, my 10-year older sister and I lived upstairs from my grandmother (which meant my dad lived upstairs from his mother-in-law, his father-in-law and my unmarried, retarded aunt).\u00a0 That meant that all summer my dad spent planting and transplanting his mother-in-law\u2019s flowers!\u00a0 The man must have had the patience of Job!\u00a0 Why did he do it?\u00a0 Because he was a servant to those around him.\u00a0 He respected his elders.\u00a0 [Exodus 20:12]\u00a0 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. – Additional Scriptures – Proverbs 23:22, Proverbs 1:8; Ephesians 6:1)<\/p>\n By the time my grandparents died when I was eleven, he and Mom had built, nail by nail, 2 x 4 by 2 x 4, shingle by shingle, a new house directly across the street on a lot my dad had traded an old alcoholic a bottle of whiskey for during the Great Depression.\u00a0 It was the typical bungalow of the 1950\u2019s.\u00a0 To me, it was a palace!\u00a0 My dad took my retarded aunt in and she lived with us.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because he knew it was the Christlike thing to do.\u00a0 Taking care of family comes before anything else and if a man doesn\u2019t do it, he is worse than a heathen.\u00a0 [1 Timothy 5:8]<\/p>\n Some things my dad forced me to do!\u00a0 Things I didn\u2019t like.\u00a0 Some I even hated!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jo & Ed (Donna’s Parents)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I not only thank my dad, I thank God for giving me my dad for without them I would never have this calling upon me.\u00a0 [Proverbs 22:6]\u00a0 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.<\/p>\n After 1948 when we got our first TV set, the thing that I most remember about my dad was that when a religious program came on the radio nightly broadcasted from 7:45 PM to 8 PM, he forced (I mean that word, too<\/span>) to shut off the TV and listen to that 15 minute program.<\/p>\n When he and my mom prayed every evening, I was forced to sit still and pray with them!<\/p>\n When he read a chapter in the Holy Bible every night, I was forced to sit still and listen to him read.<\/p>\n Every Sunday morning I was forced to go to church!\u00a0 Churches weren\u2019t air conditioned then.\u00a0 It was crowded.\u00a0 People sat next to each other with arms touching as the ushers urged you to move in closer so one more could fit in the pew.\u00a0 A lot of people used to go to church back then!\u00a0 It was so hot in church, every summer Sunday it was not unusual for someone to faint.\u00a0 The ushers would come and carry the unconscious soul out into the hallway, refreshing them with cool water.\u00a0 Services weren\u2019t shortened just because it was hot!\u00a0 God meant more to Christians back then than being entertained in plush padded theater seats with \u201cApril Air\u201d humming and drumming away quietly blowing fresh, cooled air down from the ceiling vents.<\/p>\n When I say forced to go to church, I mean, if I didn\u2019t get up, I knew a glass of cold water would be poured down upon me!\u00a0 And my mattress would still be wet at bedtime!\u00a0 I knew I had to get up and go, like it or not!<\/p>\n The last thing I recall about my dad were his last words to me, spoken just hours before he died.\u00a0 He said, \u201cDonna, the only regret I have in life is that I didn\u2019t love Jesus more.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, Dad, I married a man a whole lot like you and today, he serves the Lord Jesus Christ and I know of no two other men who love Jesus more than you and he do.<\/p>\n You see, I married a man a whole lot like my dad \u2013 and I\u2019m glad every day that I did.<\/p>\n Men, especially you fathers with young children, please know that the chances of your children marrying someone like you is strong to for sure!<\/p>\n Please remember this, fathers, how you behave will effect the lives of your children forever!<\/p>\n Be a Christian man!\u00a0 Be the kind of man you want your daughter to marry.\u00a0 Love your daughter.\u00a0 Be as gentle as a dove and bold as a lion!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BE CHRISTLIKE!<\/strong><\/p>\n C<\/em>hrist with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me. Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ in the fort, Christ in the chariot seat. Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me. Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. \u2013 Ancient Prayer<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was the very things that my beloved dad forced me to do that are the things that have turned me into the Christian woman who married a wonderful Christian man and who after my mothering years were over, turned me into the missionary woman I\u2019ve become.\u00a0 This simple woman became the Word Warriorette of Taking America Back Ministries once my children were grown and then last year, became the Watchwoman on the Wall.\u00a0 What an honor!\u00a0 I still cannot believe this has happened to me!<\/p>\n I am privileged to be serving Jesus Christ, called today to save babies from being murdered in their mother\u2019s wombs, speaking the truth in love about the sins of the world including sodomy, speaking out against the unholy alliances the politicians make with evildoers compromising the Word of God, and exposing the evil prejudice against God\u2019s Church of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 [John 7:7]\u00a0 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.<\/p>\n But most of all, I am humbled to the point to which I just want to fall down on my face and cry in utter joy by the very thought that I can reach people all over the world through this Watchwoman blog.\u00a0 Beliefnet has millions of readers from every walk of life all over the world!\u00a0 I can reach millions more than I ever could have without the people who have done much work before establishing Beliefnet.<\/p>\n I am privileged to pass along the faith carrying out the commandment of our Lord Jesus Christ to love one another as He loved us by preaching the Gospel to as many as who will receive \u2013 known as:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [Matthew 28:18-20 KJV]\u00a0 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. [19]\u00a0 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20]\u00a0 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n Fathers, if you want to be more Christlike, or maybe you\u2019re not even sure you are Christian?\u00a0 Please, read:<\/p>\n http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4928<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \n ~\u2020~<\/p>\n Posted by Donna Calvin \u2014 Monday, June 11, 2012<\/p>\n ~\u2020~<\/p>\n Please share this Watchwoman post on your Facebook page, Linkedin, Google+1, Twitter to all your friends, Please click \u201cLike\u201d, Share, and Leave Comments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Visit Word Warriorette, a free Yahoo Group, and subscribe to be notified (one email a day) of new posts on Watchwoman.<\/strong> ~\u2020~<\/p>\n ~\u2020~<\/p>\n ~END~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dad\u2019s \u2013 Your Traits Will Be the Traits of the Man Your Daughter Will Marry ><0>< By Donna Calvin Watchwoman on the Wall Father’s Day June 17, 2012 ~\u2020~ My dad wasn\u2019t a rich man.\u00a0 He never made more than $3,000 in a year.\u00a0 Nevertheless, every Sunday, the tithe went into the church\u2019s envelop because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2743,4758,7,453,373,3974,3837,3366,924,151,299,168,5174,2792,4229,466,108,1484,429,1920,1159,1384,627,5202,1589,454],"tags":[2537,2662,5324,3860,1789,3862,3311,3394,1363,1881,1423,5109,4112,4055,3031,5269,33,5113,1340,3933,5323,4458,214,5239,3252,3836,3033,1418,1166,1165,2663,1937,589,2547,5124,9380],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-amazing-pictures","category-amazing-stories-of-courage","category-america","category-children-2","category-christian-activism","category-families","category-good-deeds","category-good-news","category-heroes","category-holidays","category-inspirational","category-jesus-christ","category-joyful-stories","category-parenthood","category-pro-family-2","category-pro-life-2","category-religion","category-scriptural-living","category-society","category-taking-america-back","category-the-christian-revolution","category-traditional-marraige","category-true-love","category-victory-2","category-warm-and-fuzzy-stories","category-young-people","tag-600-prophecies-fulfilled-by-jesus-christ","tag-activist-for-christ","tag-be-christlike","tag-christ-as-king","tag-christs-bride-the-church","tag-christs-power","tag-christian-activists","tag-christian-communicators","tag-christian-faith","tag-christian-holy-trinity","tag-christian-humor","tag-christian-song-writer","tag-christian-witness","tag-christians-who-believe-in-return-of-christ","tag-deep-relationship-with-christ","tag-evangelical-christian","tag-faith","tag-faith-family-revival","tag-faith-shared","tag-faith-to-free-us","tag-fathers-day","tag-fatherly-advice","tag-holy-bible-family","tag-jesus-christ-not-head-of-5013c-churches","tag-live-in-faith","tag-marys-savior-jesus-christ","tag-not-ashamed-of-christ","tag-only-hope-is-true-repentance-and-forgiveness-in-jesus-christ","tag-post-1-of-the-christian-revolution","tag-post-2-of-the-christian-revolution","tag-preachers-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ","tag-relationship-to-christ","tag-return-of-christ","tag-shout-the-name-of-jesus-christ","tag-spiritual-beginning-of-the-christian-church","tag-the-christian-revolution"],"yoast_head":"\n
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