Father’s Day Thoughts [Bulletin date: June 15, 2025]
It was once
written, “the greatest gift I ever received came from God – I call him
Dad”. What a wonderful sentiment to explain why we celebrate Father’s
Day.
In 1901, Sonora
Smart Dodd suggested the idea of a special day to honor men like her father who
raised six children on his own. Many
decades passed but finally in 1966, President Johnson proclaimed the third
Sunday of June as Father’s Day and in 1972, it became an official national
holiday
Today there are
more than 72 million fathers across the U.S. and that does not include the other
men in our families who are like fathers to us.
So how may we best celebrate these special men on Father’s Day? With
over 17,923 men’s clothing stores, 12,889 hardware stores and an additional 4,581
home centers across the country, surely we can find the right item to show how
much they mean to us.
However, what
we really need to tell our fathers, stepfathers, fathers-in-law, grandfathers,
godfathers, and special uncles, is how much we appreciate and love them; that
their presence in our lives have shaped the people we are or will become. After all, “a father is someone you look up
to no matter how tall you grow” (author unknown.)
Remembering all
the special men in our families, past and present… Happy Father’s Day!
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