AN OPEN LETTER TO MY DAD

Father’s Day, 2006

Dear Daddy,

I just want you to know how much I love you. Your patience and wisdom, your passionate pursuit of your calling as God pointed you to the places and people he used you to minister to, and the strong commitment you made to your family I will always respect and admire.
You have “retired” to a lifestyle that never slows down and I marvel at your untiring efforts to keep going, with or without the health to do so. Please slow down just a bit, so the rest of us can keep up with you. We enjoy your company and want to have the time to be with you more often.

I know you understand better than anyone when I say, church ministry has been full of its challenges and its joys and I marvel at God leading us both to that calling…but I know, you know, it is joy to be in His will. Now if we could just do something about all the Baptists who stopped remembering what that once meant.

If we manage to use up all the days in this world pursuing God’s high calling…I don’t think it will ever be a waste of time. It makes a difference somewhere every day.

Daddy, thank you for instilling in me the desire to do my best and to stick with something and to trust God with every circumstance of life. You taught me the truth and I learned it by your example and love. Have a great Father’s Day. I’ll be preaching and getting ready for Bible School all day, but my thoughts and my love and my prayers will also be with you.

Love,

Ron