Sunday Musings - June 17, 2018

​Sunday Musings – June 17, 2018
 
Happy father’s day to all of us who are biological dads, dads by choice to non-biological children (including adult children), mentors, sponsors, wise uncles, and grandfathers who are increasingly filling both the role of father and of grandfather.
 
This morning I would like to say to our sons and daughters:
 

• I hope you will lovingly hold us accountable and let us know when and how we have failed you.
• I hope that you will see and accept your own humanness reflected in us just as we see and accept our humanness reflected in you.
• I hope that if you are a parent you have learned something from our mistakes and shortcomings.
• I hope that you know we love you unconditionally.
• I hope that you have figured out that loving unconditionally is only possible when one loves oneself unconditionally.
• I hope that we have left you curious about this life journey and open to new experiences.
• I hope that we have showed you that it is not mental illness, addiction, post- traumatic stress, depression or other disorders which are our primary enemies, but that our primary enemy is our fear of being vulnerable and asking for help when we need it.
• I hope that we have taught you that worth is not measured by the size of our adult toys, our titles or the size of our bank accounts.
• I hope that we have taught you that strength is best evidenced by the size of our hearts, the tears that we shed and the laughter we share.
• I hope that we have taught you that “we” is always better than “I”.
• I hope that we have taught you that we are a very important piece of a universal whole no matter what one calls that universal whole.
• I hope that we have taught you to love and appreciate the beauty of all that is and all we can envision and dream of.

 
Happy father’s day!
 
Written June 17, 2018