It's not my father's world anymore (standard:humor, 913 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jun 11 2012	Views/Reads: 2531/1717	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Celebrating another Father's Day without my father I cannot help thinking how much has changed since he died. If he were to return today, he would find things quite different.

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Credit was something my father's generation frowned on. As a young
person, I had in my mind to buy a bicycle. I took my father to the 
store to look at that prized bike. 

"Well," my father stammered, as he looked the bike over. "How much money
you've got saved for this bike?" I knew the lecture that was to follow. 
If you could not afford to buy something, you could not afford to have 
it. How many times have I heard that? 

Perhaps if my father could come back for a day we could send him to
Washington DC and explain to them this whole idea that if you cannot 
afford something you cannot afford something. It seemed to make sense 
to me and I was only I young person at the time. I guess when you get 
older you lose a lot of that good common sense. Then if elected and go 
to Washington DC, you leave all of that good common sense back home 
with your constituency who wonder what they elected you for. 

The verse of Scripture that was very important to my father was, "And
let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the 
work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou 
it" (Psalms 90:17 KJV). 

It may not be the same country my father loved, but I can still operate
on the same principles that made him a patriotic father, and pray, 
“Establish thou the work of our hands.” 


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