Pride Reinforces Love

I am extraordinarily blessed in so MANY ways--not the least of which is having

this man for my father.  The hours spent watching him in the yard today 

brought me great joy.  At the age of 84, he is still teaching me a great deal!

Thank you, HEAVENLY FATHER, for my earthly dad.

"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years 

what my father taught by example in one week." -- Mario Cuomo

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- George Herbert

  "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

-- Clarence Budington Kelland

"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."

-- Queen Victoria of England (clearly speaking of our Heavenly Father)

"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, 

or leave him for your own career and your own home—

it's only then that you can measure his greatness

and fully appreciate it. 
Pride reinforces love." -- Margaret Truman