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Fatherhood
How’s the little chap to know
Just the proper roads to go
If you never travel with him
While he’s little, hand in hand?
How’s he ever going to learn
Just what corners not to turn
If you never try to tell him
So that he can understand ?
Who, think you, will train him rightly,
Who will watch him daily, nightly,
Who will take the time to show him
Just the things he ought to do?
Will some stranger or a neighbor
Take upon himself the labor
Which the Lord above intended
As a duty, just for you?
Let the fame and money go,
Teach him what he ought to know,
You will find a greater glory
Than the selfish seeker can;
Shape his mind and soul to beauty,
God has given you this duty
And your age shall glow with gladness
When your boy becomes a man.
~Edgar Guest
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“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. ” ~Deuteronomy 6:5-7
~ Jacqueline
Sweet poem!! Children need their father very much. I worked as a paraprofessional in school over 24 years and you can see how it effects the child not to have a father figure in their life.