A father's love

Yah looked different this morning... like the world was a bit more colorful today than it was yesterday.  Her husband is home for the Thai New Year.  Prang and I went to visit them this evening.  Their 4 year old son had personality I’d never seen in him before.  He and his older sister were climbing all over their dad as though he were a jungle gym.  And he let them.  He held them.  He carried them.  He played with them.  Their bright smiles and wide eyes screamed, “Look at me!  My daddy loves me!”  How a father’s love can make a child blossom.  I could hardly believe I was seeing this kind of father in Yah’s husband - the same man who drank too much and didn’t help with the kids 2 months ago.

If every kid felt like this everyday, Thailand would be a different place.  Girls wouldn’t look for love in all the wrong places.  Guys wouldn’t waste the day drinking.  Oh, Jesus, for husbands and fathers...

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Nick
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Re: A father's love
Reply #2 on : Fri April 11, 2008, 03:10:40
Thanks - this really makes me want to be a good husband and father someday; not only for my own sake or for my family's sake, but to be an example that can be taken out to the world. Keep the posts coming! They are great.
Noah
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Re: A father's love
Reply #1 on : Thu April 10, 2008, 22:38:08
The same is true up here on the North-side of Chicago in the Edgewater neighborhood -- families and children whose fathers are absent, abusive, addicted to alcohol or drugs, etc. It's amazing what people will do for love. Here, kids often find their "family" and sense of love and belonging in gangs. In Buriram, there seems to be different issues with the same root cause -- absent fathers. Your prayer in Buriram is our prayer here in Edgewater -- Lord, build up a community of faithful husbands and fathers who love You and their families!