Comparing Fathers

Just like most children, I always thought that my father, Harold Lee Thomas, was a wise man.

He was not a tall man. He stood about five feet eight inches tall and weighed one hundred sixty five pounds. He was a soft spoken person, always kind to animals and people.

When I did something wrong I would rather have gotten a “switching” from Ms Alberta than a “talking to” from my father.

The switching from Ms Alberta was over and done with fast. The wrong doing paid for and a few sore spots from the switch for a reminder not to be bad again.

But that talking to from Dad tended to stay with me and make me think and keep on thinking about what had been done wrong.

For example, Dad heard someone saying something unkind to another person. Not me! Not that time! But the words that he told that person have stayed with me for more than sixty years!

Dad told that person, “Words are just like bullets. Once you let them go, there is no recalling them. They enter your target and do damage; sometimes unseen damage. So, we should always think twice before we speak, and think what words we are “shooting". We should walk a mile inside that persons shoes and try to understand just where they are coming from”.

Those were wise words sixty years ago. They are even wiser now than they were then.

We are all brothers and sisters. The color of our skin does not, should not, matter.

We were formed and shaped with the breath of life, by a loving God; who sent His only Son to hang and die on a cross for all of our sins. That Son stretched out His arms, with love and understanding, to die for us. After three days He arose from the tomb where He was laid.

Jesus still has open arms. He wants to give eternal life to those who will only believe, then follow the guidelines that were given by the Heavenly Father.

Believe in Jesus! He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the only way to be able to stand in the presence of the living God.

Answer anger with kindness and soft spoken words. Love one another!

John 14:6       King James Version

⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 13:34     King James Version

³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.