Great is thy Father’s Love

great photos celebrating a Father's loveWhen I was younger, I was a Daddy’s little girl. My father was my hero and I knew I was his princess. He could do no wrong and I’m certain he felt the same towards me. He knew all of my imperfections yet his love covered over them all. To him, I was perfect. Still am.

This Father’s Day we celebrate that love a man has for his child- a love that is sacrificial and generous. It’s protective and forgiving. It can be misguided but filled with intention. A father’s love is not perfect because we are not perfect. Thankfully, like my dad’s love made me blameless in his eyes, God’s love not only covers the imperfections of our fathers but fills the voids where our dad’s failed. We have a father above who is perfect and loves us completely, just as we are. So as we celebrate our dads this Father’s Day, let us do so with grace and mercy, compassion and thanksgiving. And to my own father, I say thank you for teaching me what it feels like to be unconditionally loved.

A few of my favorite pictures capturing the love of a dad:

Great photos celebrating the love of our dads

(photo by Kellie Carter)

You know a good dad when you see one (photo source Huffington Post)

An Amish dad and son (photo by Melissa Picone)

great is thy Fathers love - pictures celebrating the love of a father

Jim Redmond helps son Derek across the finishing line in 1992 Olympics after a hamstring injury

Loved (photo Jason Lee)

(photo by The Blue basket)

a first shave

(link to source)

(photo by Melissa McKolay)

I love my wife

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A Humorous Approach to Table Manners – the pig who saved dinner

This is absolutely hilarious and would totally work in our home. Such a great way to bring JOY instead of nagging to the family meal. A humorous Approach to teaching Table Manners. [the House of Hendrix]We have a pig. Yup, smack dab in the center of our dinner table is a pig. He’s been there for a few years and is responsible for bringing back PEACE to our family dinners. Here’s how it happened.

I wanted that dinner table with a hot, healthy meal and a loving family gathered around. My husband would ask grace and then my well-mannered children would pass around the plates of food as we chatted about our day. Yeah, NOT! During one exasperated dinner when my sons repeatedly burped during the prayer and then peas were thrown in protest to somebody chewing with their mouth open, I had had enough! My dinner table was completely filled with correction not conversation. It was not fun for anybody!

In  my desperation for sanity, I grabbed a rubber pig from the top of the toy bin and began a rant about how they were behaving like 3 little pigs. Their mamma fear turned into belly laughter as I laid down the new law of dinner time.boys

  1. If you burp, toot, or make an inappropriate bodily noise, You get the Pig!
  2. Every time you have a sharp tone or rude words, you get the Pig!
  3. If you chew with your mouth open, or…try to throw food into somebody else’s mouth while it’s open, you get the PIG!
  4. Napkin in your lap, not on top of your sister’s head or else, PIG!
  5. Rocking in your chair, getting our of your chair, falling out of your chair, PIG!
  6. The pig will move from person to person as laws are broken.
  7. Whoever ends up with the pig at the end of dinner does everybody’s dishes.

I felt better and they were roaring in laughter. This was our new dinner standard. Still is. It’s not your regular  chalkboard saying “In this family, we love…we forgive…we say please and thank you.”   But it’s ours.

The dinner table is no longer a place of constant correction, we just pass the pig. The behavior that used to bring dissention to our meal, now has brought laughter… and with that,  joy…and a table I want to sit at.

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