In 1942, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named Father of the Year by the National Father’s Day Committee in America. He sent the committee a note that read:
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son when I am gone will remember me, not from battle, but in the home, repeating with him our simple daily prayer, “Our father, Who art in Heaven.”
Fathers, God has honoured you with His title. May we all live up to it.
A bonus from an old favourite: 30 Days to a Better Man.