So where are you men of courage? Say "I Will"

Since it is Fathers Day tomorrow I just wanted to say a big "Thank You"  and Happy Fathers Day! to the many men who often jump in here to help me with my children. You have come to help with homework projects, you have offered them advice, encouraged them, thrown a ball, taken a nature walk with them, paid for books, field trips, tuitions, groceries, car payments, and other necesseties that fall short here, fixed plumbing problems, pastored them and much more. I am so glad that men like you still exist. I am blessed to know you and appreciate you and all that you do for our family. Thank you for being Courageous men and saying "I will" to your own and to others.


If you are a father and struggle with what your job as a father truly is? 
Please first ask the Lord to help you. Then find a man who can help you. 
(As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another Proverbs 27:17)
Also please see the movie Courageous, I believe this to be an amazing tool.


I may not be the Father here, but with all my strength, I say, I will! 
Children need thier fathers, but moms, if dad is gone, 
just do your best, God will honor that!


The final speech of Courageous:


"....A father should love his children and seek to win their hearts.  He should protect them, discipline them, and teach them about God.  He should model how to walk with integrity and treat others with respect, and should call out his children to become responsible men and women who love their lives for what matters in eternity.

Some men will hear this and mock it or ignore it.  But I tell you that as a father, you are accountable to God for the position of influence He has given you.  You can't fall asleep at the wheel, only to wake up on day and realize that your job or your hobbies have no eternal value, but the souls of your children do.  Some men will hear this and agree with it but have no resolve to live it out.  Instead they will live for themselves and waste the opportunity to leave a godly legacy for the next generation.

But there are some men who, regardless of the mistakes we've made in the past, regardless of what our fathers did not do fur us, will give the strength of our arms and the rest of our days to loving God with all that we are and to teach our children to do the same, and whenever possible, to love and mentor others who have no father in their lives but who desperately need help and direction.  And we are inviting any man whose heart is willing and courageous to join us in this resolution.

In my home, the decision has already been made.  You don't have to ask who will guide my family because by God's grace, I will.  You don't have to ask who will teach my son (and daughter) to follow Christ because I will.  Who will accept the responsibility of providing for and protecting my family? I will.  Who will ask God to break the chain of destructive patterns in my family's history? I will. Who will pray for and bless my children to boldly pursue whatever God calls them to do? I am their father...I will.  I accept this responsibility, and it is my privilege to embrace it.

I want the favor of God and His blessing on my home.  Any good man does.  So where are you men of courage?  Where are you, fathers who fear the Lord?  It's time to rise up and answer the call God has give you, and to say I will, I will, I will!"