Cruise Control Dad June 16, 2008

As you all know, yesterday was Father’s Day. It started off pretty much a normal sunday. My dad came and attempted to wake me up a couple times than left to go pick up people for church. I relentlessly got out of bed and took my shower. Now I am one of those females that spends at least an hour on their hair before going anywhere. But with such a great lack of sleep, i did NOTHING with my hair. I just got dressed in a nice comfortable sweater and skirt than headed out the door. I slept almost the whole way there, which is even more out of the norm because i cant sleep in the car…usually. We soon arrived at the church. I sat in my normal seat and just stared. You see, people noticed this because i am usually a very perky happy person that goes around and shakes hands. But anyways, everything was pretty normal for the most part but it being Father’s Day the message was directed more to the Fathers, than anyone else. The title of his message was Cruise Control Dad.
Pastor commented on how so many dad’s these days play no role in the family, in fact sometimes they don’t even know what is all going on in there family. And there isn’t just one reason why they don’t know, there are oh so many. 1. They focus more on the career than family. 2. They could have addictions such as to alcohol, drugs, pornography or other things. OR 3. They could be too worried about not being the “cool” dad if they were to butt in on their kids lives. The list goes on. Luckily my dad has never put anything before his family. I love him so much, I dont know what i would do without him. And yesterdays service made me realize this even more, just how LUCKY i am for having such a FANTASTIC dad. :]
Pastor ended the message saying to the Fathers that if you are just sitting back and relaxing, riding on cruise control or auto pilot, you need to #1. Get off cruise control or auto pilot. #2. Get involved with your family, spend some time together. And last but certainly important, you need to #3 Get your family to the house of God everytime you can. And get them involved in Church. Than we ended service by having all of the Dads come to the alter and everyone else pray for them. Following that, we had the families get together and pray. It was a great service and i dont intend on forgetting that message.
I hope you were blessed by this today and Happy belated Father’s Day.
To God Be The Glory,

Christina