Dr. John Gray refers to men being from Mars and women from Venus. The distinctions Gray makes in his famous book Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus provides insight into understanding the opposite sex. Thus, the manner in which women express love is far different from men. This fact must be considered as Father’s Day arrives since a father’s love takes time to comprehend.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life,” John 3:16.
As a son of an immigrant, my dad came to this country with the clothes on his back. Dedication to his work as a chemical engineer prevented me from spending time with my father early on as a child. Living the American dream requires sacrifice, something I didn’t understand then but I do now. The resolve my father demonstrated to provide a better life for his family was his way of displaying a father’s love.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him, 1 John 4:16.
In 1989, Billy Crocket released an album entitled Basic Stuff. There was nothing basic about the lyrics of A Father’s Love, the hit ballad from this project. The image this song paints highlight’s the father in the parable of the prodigal. After exercising freewill, taking his inheritance, this curious son squandered everything his dad had accumulated for him. Instead of remaining bitter, this father sat on a front porch, hoping and waiting for his son to come home. May this classic song and blog help you appreciate the various ways earthly dad’s express a father’s love.
by Jay Mankus
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