A Good Father
By GARY TOOLE
A lot of children in this day and age do not have a good role model at home. So they want to be like Mike (Michael Jordan) or some other athlete, celebrity, or star only to be disappointed or disillusioned when their idol's footsteps lead down a path of self-destruction and their footprints are only reminders of the penalty paid to those who sow in the flesh.

When I was coming up in the 1950s, my hero was Baseball Hall of Fame star Ted Williams. He had his signature on all baseball gloves, bats, and baseballs sold by Sears & Roebuck Co. We would look at the catalog and say, "Boy, I sure want a Ted Williams glove!" Of course, it didn't matter whose glove I got, I couldn't catch anything no how.

In Later years I met him and he sure was a bad disappointment. I got to thinking about it. My dad never did disappoint me as far as the life he lived and Jesus surely has never left me nor disappointed me.

There are so many broken homes; single parent homes, and that is

why so many children are reaching out to anyone to use as a role model. They even look up to the leaders of gangs and flashy drug dealers. So, I just want to say,

and I am proud

to say, that I want to always be like my dad.

Even though I didn't admit it or show it, he really has always been my role model and a good one too. There were rebellious times in my life that I didn't want to be like him. It is so ironic how that when we are little children we want to be exactly like our father. We even mimic him. We try to stretch our little feet into his footsteps.

One man was smoking and his little son was sitting beside him and the next thing he knew his son had gotten a cigarette from out of the pack between them and he was pretending that he was smoking. The man said that he quit smoking that very day.

Well, we become a teenager and we know it all and our parents are just old outdated fogies. We become rebellious and try to be completely different from our parents -- different from dear old dad. We're so smart now and we think that everything that he has taught us is all wrong. Then as we grow older we automatically start becoming more like our father and even most men's wives will start calling them by their father's name when they are mad at them. Amen!

But the wonderful thing is this: "If you have a good father or had a good one then you started wanting to be like him, just like you did when you were a child, which brings truth to the saying, "Once a man, twice a child." Can you say amen?

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