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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Jeremiah Heaton, the owner of a mine safety company in Virginia knows how to give good gifts to his children. While they were sharing time at a tea party, his daughter Emily asked him if she could be a princess. He told her yes, and then sat out to make that dream come true. He discovered piece of land…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
In his book, Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About the Parent We’ve Overlooked Paul Raeburn says that “the presence of a father apparently reduces the chances that a child will be born prematurely or die in infancy. Dads’ penchant for roughhousing may aid the development of children’s intelligence.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
“Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among African-Americans. He argued presciently and powerfully that the rise of single-parent households would make poverty more intractable.” “The fundamental problem,” Moynihan wrote, is…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Sociologists are beginning to discover truths that have been written in the scripture for millennia. The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre has discovered that the absence of a father is not good for Children. Their studies show the lack of a father contributes to defects in a…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
49er head coach Jim Harbaugh learned the power of spinning a situation at an early age. When he was a little kid, the family's motto was "Who's got it better than us?" His dad, Jack, would ask the question and Jim, his brother John and sister Joani would shout in unison, "Nobody!" At the time, they lived…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
Keeping the 5th commandment to honor father and mother becomes difficult, if not impossible, for the thousands of children who know their fathers only as “Donor.” For many of them it creates an identity crisis that has no solution. Alana Stewart is one of those fatherless children. Telling her story…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Matthew Roberts, adopted as a baby, wanted to know about his birth parents. He began the search hoping to expand his family with two more people who would love him. He found his biological mom living in a cabin in Wisconsin. She had no phone, no car, and the adoption lady told him, "She is a little bit…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
FATHERS Brett Favre is 40 years old and still playing Quarterback in the National Football League. Favre is playing for the Minnesota Vikings, the fourth team of his storied career. He has won one super bowl and three times he has been voted the Most Valuable Player in the NFL. One of the reasons, perhaps…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez is a star in the world of soccer, and his father is a star to his family. Javier Hernandez recently signed a deal to play with Manchester United, but this summer he will travel to South Africa to represent Mexico in the World Cup. Hernandez’s father is a reserve coach for…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
FATHERS Maria Kefalas is a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues. She is a self-identified feminist who has co-authored a book called, Promises I can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. Her research has shown that few things hamper a child as much as not having a father…
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 86 views
The Little Chap Who Follows Me A careful man I want to be, A little fellow follows me; I do not dare to go astray For fear he’ll go the self-same way. I cannot once escape his eyes. Whate’er he sees me do he tries. Like ME he says he’s going to be— That little chap who follows me. I must remember as…
Illustration • • 8 views
One Sunday morning when my son, David, was about 5, we were attending a church in our community. It was common for the preacher to invite the children to the front of the church and have a small lesson before beginning the sermon. He would bring in an item they could find around the house and relate…
Illustration • • 5 views
1. There is no such thing as childproofing your house. 2. If you spray hairspray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 3. A 4-year old’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. 4. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 13 views
Parenting is more than a duty, it’s a life calling. US News and World Report once reported the following story about parenting: “Americans are so shaped and stamped by their legacy of individualism that the concepts of community virtue and moral obligation have been discredited. In our popular culture,…
Pastor Doug Warmann • Illustration • • 14 views
His shoulders are a little bent, His youthful force a trifle spent, But he’s the finest man I know, With heart of gold and hair of snow. He’s seldom cross and never mean; He’s always been so good and clean; I only hope I’ll always be As kind to him as he’s to me. Sometimes he’s tired and seems forlorn,…
Terry Cavanaugh • Illustration • • 19 views
Now you are drunk Billy Graham says his favorite story is of a husband who was not very attentive to his wife. But one day he started feeling guilty about that, & decided to change. So on his way home from work he bought a box of candy & some flowers to surprise his wife. He walks up to the door & rings…
Kevin Scruggs • Illustration • • 7,817 views
A story of two men: STORY NUMBER ONE Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was his lawyer…
Ian Forest-Jones • Illustration • • 241 views
A good father flies kites with you at the park. A good father takes you fishing. A good father takes good care of you. A good father keeps you out of trouble. A good father loves you (and gives you just a sip of his beer). Bart was 13 years old when he prepared a Father's Day card that included the short…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 14 views
One hot afternoon, my 3-year-old daughter and I entered an elevator. My daughter stood next to a man in gym shorts and stared at his legs. "Mommy, he's got fur just like Daddy!" Later my sister-in-law remarked, "Be glad she didn't say 'Just like you.' " Focus on the Family February 2006 Page 6
Logos User • Illustration • • 11 views
On February 19, 1979, a small plane crashed into Ontario Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, California, and a ten-hour story of death, courage, and survival began. The passengers of that Cessna 172 included the pilot, a young woman, an attorney, and his eleven-year-old son. The pilot and the attorney…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 13 views
According to a new study, 65% of men, 48% of women, 36% of fathers, and 20% of mothers agreed that pornography was an acceptable way for someone to express their sexuality. Pat Trueman of the Alliance Defense Fund says porn gives young men a sense of “entitlement” when it comes to sexual relations in…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 17 views
Does being more of a father make you less of a man? To a group of committed dads assembled one night in a New Jersey diner, the answer is obvious. Sort of. Paul Haley, 38, a father of two, says women look at him when he walks down the street with his kids. "I think it's admiration," he says. Adam Wolff,…