A good father takes time to play
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He has strong integrity
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He is someone
that is truly dedicated
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He is not
afraid to show his love
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He is a caring provider
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And, he's a
kind, spiritual leader
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These are just a few ways
to describe a father's heart
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Hi, welcome to A Father's
Heart I'm Xavier, your host
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And today we're just
going to go over some highlights
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some things that we
talked about during the season
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So please join us. Here
with me is Gordon and Denry
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How you guys doing today?
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Good, good. Doing well
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Awesome man. So we've
talked about a lot of things
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during this season and it's
been huh emotionally charged
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and we shared our
souls, our hearts together here
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as men, not having fear of
sharing our emotions, right?
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But before we talk about,
go over some of the points and
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things like that, can we pray?
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Yeah. Alright let's
have a word of prayer
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Dear gracious Father God,
thank you Lord that men of God
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can come together to
pray with you and pray to you
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and Lord right now we just
ask that you continue to work
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with us as fathers cause we
still have no clue at the end
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of the day how everything
is supposed to go but we can
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rely on you to understand
what fatherhood is all about
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in Jesus' name, amen.
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So what do you guys think, what
are some of the things we talked
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about that, man like
fatherlessness, fatherless men
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what are some of the things
we talked about that you liked
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that we just go over it again
one more time just to refresh
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my memory, refresh our memories
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I think for me one of the big
things is what happens at birth
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and that whole thing of not
bonding, not making that initial
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bond. That separation, not
being there when the child needs
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you. That was a great highlight
for me. And a lot of things that
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we talked about if you look
at it, it all stems from the
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beginning, you know stems from
there. For whatever reason the
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father chooses not to be in a
child's life, it's a traumatic
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thing for the child. And I think
it's something we ought to be
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aware of as men, as
fathers. I also think, you know,
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we have to celebrate the
good fathers and encourage the
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ones that are
strugglin to get in the game
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and that it is never too late
to get in the game and just be
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a father to your child and spend
the time the child needs you
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It's an important
thing. What was your thought?
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One of the episodes that stood
out for me was realizing that
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I don't have to be perfect
and I think a lot of us fathers
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try to aim for something higher
than our ability and we try to
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be the perfect dad and so all
of our kids need perfect, you
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know, all these things we try
to be, to accomplish all these
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perfect things and then we
fail and then we get discouraged
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ourselves because we are
not perfect. But when we realize
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that we serve a perfect God who
does a perfect work through us
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and how He makes us perfect
and when we are patient with
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ourselves and let grace work
in us then we can be graceful to
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our children and not
expect them to be perfect either
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and a lot of our children are
not expectin us to be perfect
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they're just expectin
us to be fathers, that's it
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Because we can't be perfect
because we live in a messed
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up world. We live in a world of
sin and because of what sin has
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done there's no way we can be
perfect and lotta times we think
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about the genetics of this whole
thing, what you receive as a
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child is what you pass
on because that's a learned
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behavior and if that's
your only world view of what
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fatherhood is like there is
no way that you will be able to
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get it right unless you get
yourself, at least seek some
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help, get some counseling if
you've had some kinda traumatic
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experiences in your childhood
because it's just gonna go on
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from generation to generation
and I think as fathers we've
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gotta look for ways to break
the cycle so that what we've
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experienced we don't pass on.
So if there's a child out there
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and that child is experiencing
fatherlessness, don't let that
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anger and hurt and
disappointment keep you
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from being the best
father that you can be
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I think we've got to forgive
our fathers, forgive them
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for not being there because some
of them probably wanted to be
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there but because of their
childhood they just can't do it
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they don't know how,
there's no manual. There's no
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there was no father for them
to teach them what they need
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to do and because of
that they're at a loss
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I think that's a good general
premise that we talked about
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that we need to focus on
two is forgiveness you know,
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and that's one of the
things we have to work through
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and I think one of my favorite
parts was talkin about the
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fatherless Trinity and the
fact that we and any child sees
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their father as a reflection of
who God is and that reflection
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of God can either be
marred or can be amplified
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in the child's life as they grow
it can be really detrimental
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if the child does not get a
good image of God the Father
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from their own earthly father
and I can think of so many
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things that we've talked
about in reference to that and
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just the fact that God loves
us so much, He loves us so much
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that even though He's
a one child family per se
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you know the only begotten Son
of God, He chooses to include
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us in the family of the kingdom
of God and even though He's our
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heavenly Father He still gives
us earthly fathers that need to
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put in the work and effort to
really give us a spiritual walk
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nurture us. You know we
attribute nurturing to women
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and giving us the nurturing
aspect of spirituality, that
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priestly role and I don't
know I really resonated with
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the fatherless Trinity
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I really don't want to mess
your minds up but I just have
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this thought. What kind
of father or how would we
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how would we characterize
a father who gave His Son up
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to die? What would we call that?
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Selfless. Huh? Selfless
Come on now, let's be real
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I mean if you give your child
up to die for somebody else
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what would the
world think of you?
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Murderer. A good
father? Not at all, Worse
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Terrible. That's true and
you neglect him when he's callin
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on you? Uh huh. But
yet we call that love
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How do you
reconcile that thought.
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I don't think there are words to
describe that. Honestly, I can't
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wrap my brain around the idea of
givin up my one and only child
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to die for a bunch of people
that hate him in the first place
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Does it make sense to me? Why
would I do that for a bunch of
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wretched human beings that are
that despise him, spit on him
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whip him and when he calls me
I'm supposed to be the one that
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comes to rescue him and I don't
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and you're this big, you're
this father that's all powerful
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and you see a child going
through this kind of stuff
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but yet because of
what you're trying to do
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you're not only
lookin out for that one child
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you give that one child
up to redeem the whole world
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Selfless act, that one child, so
that all of the other children
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could have hope. You made a
point you know when you said
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it doesn't make sense,
it's something imaginary
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but that's the thing with
love, love doesn't make sense
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unconditional
love doesn't make sense
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WE ought to get that. You see
our love, our love is based on
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either feelings, emotions,
based on how we, whether the
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person treats us is conditional.
God's love is unconditional
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God's love goes beyond,
it's a mystery. Even Paul says
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for the gentiles and
the Greeks it's foolishness
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what, this
doesn't make any sense.
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This does not make any
sense Why would He do that?
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You know, and just like you
said but there's sometimes even
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as a father you do things that
don't make sense for your family
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and I remember even my dad, my
stepdad, he did things I didn't
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understand but now I
look back and Oh, Wow
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he didn't have a choice in
this matter and he did his best
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But one of the points I want
to bring out is the not puttin
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your children in the middle.
I really encourage parents
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if they're unfortunate, you're
not together, don't make your
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child a pawn. Don't
make your child a chess piece
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your child had nothing to do
with your separation or whatever
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occurred between the two of you
that is not the child's fault
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don't use the child as a pawn
don't pull a guilt trip on the
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child, make the child
feel like oh, you don't love me
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if you listen to your dad,
you don't love me if you listen
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to your mom. Don't put negative
thoughts in your child's head
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about the other spouse or
even if you're livin together
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if you're married. Sometimes
it's unfortunate, sometimes
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it's unfortunate. It happened
to me. You know you tell your
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child about the spouse so
your child could side with you
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you're actually destroying
the child and later on
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it will counter on you.
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I think we should, as far as
we need to take responsibility
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for our actions and not puttin
the children in the middle of
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this, it's a very good point
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But there comes a time
though as you grow older
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you've got to stop
blaming everybody else
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for your mess up
and look to yourself.
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and know that, listen man
I've messed up. Own up to your
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mistakes, own up to your
faults so that you can move on
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and a lot of times we can
say you know this happened in my
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childhood and that has happened
and so I'm actin this way
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because of that. There comes
a time that you've got to just
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own up to this, you know
what I have to move on from here
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I can't be stuck here because
if I'm stuck here I'll forever
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bring my child into the midst
of everything and keep blamin
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everybody else.
You just gotta move on
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I think this part of our
conversation too, to recap
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and understand everything, goin
over everything we've talked
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about so much, we never took
time to look at our children
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on the wall, the pictures. Have
you ever just, I'm lookin at
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mine right now, all our kids,
you know the way they see me
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you know what? How
do our kids see us like?
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I know we're talkin, we see the
pictures and everything of our
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children and I see their smiles
and my kids don't think anything
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negatively of me. You know,
one time my son, my middle son
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is my biggest
supporter when I'm preaching
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Sometimes I'm preachin
and nobody else says, you know
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I mean one of those situations
they may not agree or just
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thinkin too deep or whatever
and I want someone to say Amen
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I hear him, Amen. Preach,
preacher. You know, he's just
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he's just promoting, encouraging
me. And so like you said
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you know when they see you,
they see you and they always
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see you, sometimes I
think they see you as a champion
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a person they look up
to. That's how they see you
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as a person they look up to.
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You know not necessarily that
you are, you are the greatest
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thing to them. So
even the little that you do
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is great, anything you do it's
great to them and they're like
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man, I wanna be like dad
when I grow up. One of them came
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the oldest one was like, I
think God is talking to me Dad
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I think He's telling me to
be a pastor. And I had to sit
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down with him and said, this
is something that you pray about
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and you ask God specifically
what is it You want me to do?
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And this is not something
you take lightly. What I do
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is not something lightly.
So they look at you and they
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look up and you can be the
greatest inspiration to them
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So I'm encouraging fathers,
be the greatest inspiration
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besides God, to your children
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They look at us as perfect.
When they see us, they see us
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as flawless, we have no faults
Even when you make mistakes
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you're still perfect to
them. That's how they see us
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And when, sometimes when we make
a mistake and it's really big
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to them, it really startles
them so we have to be careful
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when we're saying one thing
and they see something different
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then their view becomes skewed
so whatever we preach, whatever
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we say we need to
follow through on what we say
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Cause they're seein us as
this is my dad, he's good,
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he's perfect in their
sight. WE can never do wrong
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in our children's sight. My
biggest fear is what he said
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you know as a pastor my biggest
fear, I've heard the story so
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many times with PKs and so
forth what they see at church
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is a different man
than they see at home
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The man in church loves
every body, smiles at everybody
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the man at home hates everybody
always upset at everybody
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and when they see
that, they see hypocrisy
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and children hate
it. They like real stuff
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And they'll grow up and
say, this Christianity, this God
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that you guys serve is
fake. I don't want nothing to do
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WE talked about also,
you know, making memories
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That's why I said you know,
I emphasized so much pictures
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cause, you know, have you ever
stopped just to take a look at
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the memories you made?
Like one of those pictures
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There's my oldest daughter
holding her newborn sister
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and the other one you know,
just look at them, you know
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just look at the fact that
one of those, that's permanent
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memories. If you guys just
take a look. Just look at your
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pictures, just look at
them. And look at the things the
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memories we've
made with our children.
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My daughter is a character.
That picture over there with her
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She was eating some frostin,
some cream and I guess she felt
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that more than her mouth needs
to taste it so she put it on her
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face and her hand, everything
and so I just had to take a
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picture and I remember that
exactly, I remember that day
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just start laughin. Often,
and we do this every so often
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we have all these stacks
of pictures. On my son's 19th
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birthday I think I stayed up
until about 2:30 in the morning
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just going from picture to
picture and havin that moment
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all by myself. That emotional
moment with tears comin down my
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cheeks just because I'm recallin
countin from baby, just memories
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him, we're outside with his
tricycle. Memories just goin
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through memories and not
afraid to get in touch with my
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emotions. I realize and I thank
God, I really thank God for
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where He's brought us from
and how He has kept us. I have
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wonderful children. I have a
wonderful son and a wonderful
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daughter and I thank God
for how He has helped me, my
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imperfections to teach them
His ways, to pray for them, to
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encourage them to let them know
that no matter what Daddy loves
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them have I made mistakes, yes.
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But I was never
afraid to say I'm sorry
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I've messed up but the
whole thing of bein a, goin down
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memory lane and lookin at
pictures and gettin in touch
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with my manly emotions
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gettin in touch with my manly
side, the emotional side I call
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just bein able to relate man,
I tell you. Memories are great
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build them. I can sit down, we
talk about the trip we went to
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Arizona, although they hated
it but I didn't mind driving
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hours, so we can have time.
Daddy we just could fly and get
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there. But we'll miss the memory
of just talking, of just spendin
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the time, just bondin together
so we just had a wonderful time
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together. So those are memories
I'll never forget and I know
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they wouldn't forget. So we
have to build memories with our
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children. I remember a
memory of my dad and mom playing
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basketball with me. You know
it was corny to me but now I
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look back and I appreciate it
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One of my memories with my Dad
we didn't have the money to get
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fishing poles. We
were living in Puerto Rico
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My mom, me and my dad
went out to go fishing and
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we grabbed old jugs of
bleach and things like that
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he cut a little pin-sized hole
and put a fishing line in it
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and he took the top off the
jug and put a knot and put the
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hook and everything and that was
our fishing, and when we catch
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a fish we just start rolling the
jug like this and it's silly to
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people, to some, not
sayin all but to some
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but to me it was like, I
caught a fish for the first time
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That was my moment you
know, it was an ugly fish
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I couldn't eat it
but I caught a fish
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You know those are little things
that even though we've gone
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through things with our fathers.
Even though we've experienced
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things that we want to forget
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we can't ask God for
better father figures
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They gave us what
they had, what they knew
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I think that's why
it's important to forgive
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because, yes we are angry
at some things, yes we're upset
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at others, what they did what
they didn't do but at the end
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of the day, if it wasn't because
they met our mothers, we would
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not be here. You know one of
the great things we also brought
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out in this series is that
about how to respect the mother
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You know we don't want to make
it seem like, oh we just pro men
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and we want to bash the mothers
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No, that's not what
we're trying to do. We want to
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encourage the men to be in
the lives of their children
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and we want to encourage them to
be helpful to the mothers even
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if unfortunately, you know
they have been separated or so.
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You know respect them
like, don't call them your baby
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mother. Call them who they are.
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They are the mother of your
child. And so give them that
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respect even if they
are disrespectful to you
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even if they are talkin
ill about you, you as a man
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it's your responsibility
to always restore people
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Also we talked about when
if fathers died in the home
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what do you do, how do
you get help as a single mom?
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we talked about the different
programs that are probably out
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there, mentorship. But if
you're going to have a mentor
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to mentor your child, make sure
that, you know, they're good
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because a lot of pedophiles are
there so we've got to make sure
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that children are protected
but find someone to mentor
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and mentor that young man and
let the man mentor your young
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man and let a young lady mentor
your young lady so that you can
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have that mentor relationship
so that child can learn how to
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be a man and to help you out.
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The safety of your
child is a priority.
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We also talked
about when Jesus wept.
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How we need to teach our young
men and even our young ladies
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how to properly express emotion.
That it's ok that society says
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don't express but Jesus wept.
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You know more than once so it's
a thing we need to understand
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not to hold it in but learn
how to cope, express our emotion
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properly. A lot of our children
do not get the chance, we don't
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give them the chance to express
their emotions and we don't give
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them the chance to be upset,
you know depression is actually
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anger within. So if you suppress
even them teaching them how
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to be upset the right way
and what to do with their upset
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like, you know, in the case of
police brutality and those kind
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of matters you know.
Teach them to respect authority
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even if authority doesn't
respect them, you know, teach
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them their number 1
priority is to get home.
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To get home. Not your pride,
not your ego, not even your race
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come home. Be respectful and
even if they call you out a name
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mistreat you, you come
home. When you get home, then
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you deal with the proper
chain of command and lawyers and
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so forth. But we need to teach
them how to deal with anger
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and other emotions. And Father
101, this whole idea of what
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it's like to be a father because
there's no manual of course
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but one of the things that
I think a good father needs to
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have is balance. Being able to
balance work and being able to
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balance your family life.
And balance is a very important
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thing. Also, being able to
balance your spiritual life
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cause you need to have that
devotional life in place so that
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the child can see and
mirror your devotional life and
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understand it. My dad is having
time for me, time for his wife
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and time for the Lord. You
flip that, time for God and time
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for family. But that balance
is important for, to have in a
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child's life. So have and
understand that havin that
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balance goes a long way in
that child's life because the
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child now when they grow
up to be their own father
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they'll have balance.
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I think too right
now, just thinkin about it
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we've talked so much
about so many different things
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from genetics to abandonment
to rejection. You know I want us
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us to take one minute, each
of us just to kinda say what's
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in our heart as far as
what we've spoken about and
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what kinda things do we
want to say to fathers that we
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encounter, Denry?
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I simply want
to say, be a father
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whether you feel it was a
mistake in your relationship
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or whether you
feel you're not prepared
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whether you feel that you have
problems with the mother of your
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child, whatever excuse,
whether it's fear or whatever
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be a father. Your child is
not asking you to be perfect
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Not at all. Your child is
asking you simply this, is to be
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their father. To be their
guidance, to be the person that
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they, when they are fearful
they can call on, nothing more
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excites me than when my children
are scared at night and they
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call me in the middle
of the night, Daddy, Daddy
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and I can be there. So
simply this, be a father.
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You're not perfect.
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I never had the best father
but I have a father I love
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And I have a purpose in my
heart to make changes so when I
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get children that I will
be better than my father was
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And I think
because it's never too late
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to make some changes in your
life even if you've done a bad
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job of bein a father,
it's never too late to start
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to make changes, to say
that I'm going to be the best
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I'm gonna take
what I have and use it.
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Love my children, I'm
gonna love my children because
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I've got a God that loves
me so much that He chose to
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give up His only Son
for me and if He can do that
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I'm not going to give up
my son but I'll give of myself
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I'm willing to sacrifice
whatever I need to sacrifice
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so that my children can be
whole and that's what I think
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you know a good father should do
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Thank you guys and we'll
pick it up another time, but
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it's been a long season and
we've talked about many things
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The main thing is,
being a father is not the most
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impossible thing in the world
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There are too many broken
children. Our systems are jails
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our juvenile centers are
riddled with fatherless youth
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without mentorship. We have
children dying without knowing
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their fathers or knowing God
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You know there's something
inherently wrong with our world
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when we can't turn to our
fathers. Yes there might be
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different circumstances, yes
things happen. The point is that
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we're reachin out to you,
the one that's sitting there
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waiting for an opportunity
to be a father to your child
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Don't wait till
it's too late, do it now.
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It's not impossible, you
can do it. We'll pray for you
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we'll pray with
you and we love you.
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Thank you for watching
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