I Witnessed A Father Guiding/Encouraging His Daughter Yesterday on Father's Day, Yes, I Did Say on Father's Day

You know it never ceases to amaze me who I will meet on my journey when I walk. I completed my walking early yesterday morning before church. I went to church and Pastor spoke to the men today and a portion of what he preached on dealt with guidance. As I was driving home from church I noticed a man with a child in a truck that had a boat pulled by the truck. It was not any special boat per say, it was just a boat. It did not even look new or you surely could not classify it as a yacht it was just a power boat. In that instant as I drove past Holy Spirit put something in me to pray for that man and his child. All of a sudden I became filled with compassion for them for this thought came to my mind...Maybe the Father was able to muster up just enough money to fill up the boat with fuel in order to take his child out on the water for a boat ride today. Maybe to fish or just enjoy the beautiful day today. I prayed a blessing for them to enjoy themselves. Isn't that what a parent does? They will give what they have to their child to bless them and make it an enjoyable day/experience for their child and themselves too in the process.
Even if you have next to nothing left it is amazing that you will share with others (especially your children) what you do have and not dwell on the what you don't have right? I hope you agree with this if you have ever been there, had it all and then it slipped right through your hands. Remember, Job had it all and he was then restored with the later restoration greater than before. That was a word for someone just now, grab it and hold onto it for God is a restorer of all. Sorrow/tears/pain are replaced with laughter/joy/peace.
Back to the story about the people I met on my evening walk yesterday. You know I tend to start a story and then it goes in another direction and then the next thing you know I am back on the story again. It seems to be that my mind just races with the thoughts and I can't capture them quick enough to write them and the next thing I know I am drawing other thoughts into the writing. That is how I know it is with Holy Spirit that I am able to write like I do. Have you ever noticed that the story within the story all seems to work into the story when you look at the final publish?
I was heading in one direction last evening and I see a dog running towards me, it was not a small dog either. All of a sudden I remembered the training I recently received about dogs, do not look the dog in the eyes. I quickly glanced at the dog as it ran past me and hoped that it would not follow or charge at me. It did not for it was just running and ran past me. At the moment I encountered the dog I saw two people heading in my direction. I asked them if that was their dog that just ran past me. I was going to inquire if it was a friendly dog. They told me it was not their dog and they thought it lived on a street over. We struck up a conversation when I noticed the girl had a pretty professional looking camera around her neck. I asked if they got pictures the other day of the farmers harvesting the fields. Negative to that question. I was going to go on with walking in the direction I was headed in until I felt led to walk with them and volunteer to share with them about the recent harvest. I asked if they took pictures of the bald eagles yet and the Dad told me she just got the camera for her 14th birthday the other day. I walked with them until we reached the area where the eagles perch and sure enough one was in the tree. She was able to see it through her lens of the camera and it was her Father that encouraged her to get up closer to capture a picture. The field was already harvested so there were no high alfalfa plants to have to trudge through. I went about my way as Father and daughter headed onto the field to capture a closer picture.
You just never know where a conversation is going to head when it starts. He mentioned to me about the farm equipment accident that happened the other day. He said he read about it in the newspaper and that it took them one hour to get the farm equipment off of the young man that it fell on. I thought the reporter that I briefly spoke with the other day was from our local newspaper, guess not. He was from the larger newspaper and an article was published about it in the paper.
In conclusion, Father's take the time to not just love your children but give them guidance. Have fun with them for today's fun will be tomorrows memory for both you and them. I trust that Father's had a great day with their children on Father's Day. We seem to give all the attention it seems to be to the mother's on Mother's Day and not as much to the Father's on their day. Father's are equally important in a child's life so Mother's do not forget that.
PS: Since I wrote this I did call the co. to see if the young man in the accident was OK, he is.