Father's Love

      How you ever felt that you are loved by your father?

     Fathers love their children beyond any measure. A father does everything and anything in his power to ensure that his children are protected, supported and loved. At first, some does not  understand their father’s ways—his being authoritative, his sternness and lack of humor. But later on, they see that it was all just his way of loving his children. 

   

       In this still mostly patriarchal world, fathers are expected to be the provider for their family. If his children's are lacking in any aspect, society frowns upon the father for not being a good provider as well as a strong pillar. That, I guess, is every father’s deepest burden. He has to be willing to play the bad guy, if only to make sure that his child remains safe. 

    I remember when my father used to scold me because of my stubbornness and playfulness he would sometimes spank me and deprive me with what I want like playing in the afternoon or going out with my friends. Afterwards, he would secretly ask my mother to comfort me when I am already crying. He suffers silently, he has to be stiff, that I guess is his silent suffering as a father. Weird, but I grow up with that manner of parenting from him.

      As a child of a kind-a-strict father, I supposed that God Is the same. I suppose that God panics just the same when we stumble and fall. I suppose that God scolds us just the same when we do something naughty. I suppose that God suffers just the same when we say that God is sometimes unfair or our father.

        A close friend once told me, “Before we can even register the pain we feel, God has already cried an ocean for us.”

Have you ever thanked your Father?