He taught me these things without using many words. He taught me these things by modeling. He didn’t talk to me about what it would take to be a good father. His method was just to model it for me.
Most men are not taught how to raise babies. Furthermore, this is one skill that never was modeled to me since I was still young when my little brother was born. Women tend to think more about that. I thought about it for the first time when I heard my wife was pregnant. Recently I was in a novelty shop and a picked up a book on baby care for a friend just discovered his wife is preganant and they are expecting their first child this fall.
Pretty helpful stuff. But when it came to heart issues, I had a hard time talking to my dad. This had more to do with my personality than it had to do with him. I wanted to please him so badly that I was afraid to share with him my struggles, my weaknesses, my failures and my humanity. I closed off some of the deepest areas of my heart and my life, from him. Why? Because I didn’t want to lose a façade of perfection that I was trying to uphold. What would happen if I “got real” with my dad? The truth be known, I believe we would have had some great conversations and an even greater understanding of each other.
With Father's Day right around the corner I want to invite you not fear "getting real" with you Heavenly Father. He already knows what you're doing, what you're thinking and what you need. All pretense can therefore be lost and acceptance is the place where the conversation begins.
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