My Journal and Diary
2025
June
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
Helping Dad
In this morning's "Our Daily Bread" devotional reading, a story by Mike Wittmer really impacted me. It described the way little boys like to help their dads, and it brought back so many memories of me as a child, and my own children as well.
In the story, as a Father was going out to cut wood his son yelled out, "Dad! Wait up! I wanna come with you!" He grabbed his toy chain saw, and ran to help dad cut wood.
It reminded me of my kids down in my workshop, hammering nails in scrap wood. I can recall them following me around the yard with their toy lawn mowers. Although they thought they were helping me, what mattered most to me was that they wanted to be like me, and that they wanted to be with me.
Do you see how that is like a model of our relationship with the Father? He doesn't need us to perform perfectly. The tools we bring to the problem aren't even the point! What the Fathers longs for is our presence. He wants us to emulate Him, to follow Him, to be with Him.
Let's make time to be in His presence today. That's what He longs for, and what we need.
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