“Don’t let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. Don’t set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of ‘Father’; you have only one Father, and he’s in heaven. And don’t let people manoeuvrer you into taking charge of them. There is only one Life-Leader for you and them—Christ.
Matthew 23:9-10 The Message (MSG)
Not just Father but Abba which means, “Daddy”. It signifies the close, intimate relationship of a father to his child, as well as the childlike trust that a young child puts in his “daddy.” It is life changing to understand the awesome privilege of becoming his adopted son or daughter. There are many reasons today why you might not want to put your trust in a father… But maybe you can put your trust in a Father God? He is to be trusted and enjoyed. It will be a new experience to discover Abba.
Children’s laughter children tears
Childish joys of childhood years
Are just memories of our once happy home
Its not death that brings the pain
I would face it all again
But it grieves me so to leave you all along
Do the wee ones still sigh when they hear their daddy’s name
Do they sadly ask you why I won’t be home again
How hard it is to know I’ll never see them grow
Let my dying bring for them a better land
May they never know the fears
That blighted my young years
Of the shackles that have bound my native land
May they see the joy of life
And not cruel civil strife
Foreign laws imposed by brutal strangers hands
Let them grow in love and truth
Let them blossom into youth
Guided by their mother’s loving hand
Let them cherish Ireland’s pride
For this Joe McDonnell died
Let them know their father loved them and his land
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