DAY OF REFLECTION

Today is Fathers Day in the U.S. On this day families and individuals across the country will have special gatherings and provide gifts celebrating the position and role of fathers in our lives. Celebrating men who help provide for, teach, protect, correct and live as examples for their children. I find with each passing year I understand and appreciate my father more and more. 

For some, this is not a special day or a day of celebration. They may not know their father or may have had a father who didn't provide, wasn't a good teacher, good example or even a good person. Their father may even have been hurtful to them. I recently wrote of the principle that we can learn and or benefit from any experience ( What can I learn from this?). That can apply today to the experience of a father in your life. Some people are examples of what to do and be in life. A person can also be an example of 'what not to do and be in life.' Today, perhaps we can reflect and consider the blessings of what we have, what we are and what we have learned as a result of our father. Whether your father was present or not, loving or not, a good example or not, we can learn and benefit if we choose to do so.