I’m excited to have all three of my sons here today (and I just spent two weeks with my daughter). Life is good.

And Father’s Day fits right into our reading plan:

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. (Proverbs 4.1 – 7, NKJV)

My own father passed over 40 years ago, and I am thankful that after a rough start, he met the Lord when I was only 3. He established my foundation in the Word. Thanks, Dad. And thank you, Father, for my dad.