Father's Day - IXNAY (Nix) on the Ties!

Father’s Day is nigh, it’s neither too early nor too late to choose the perfect gift. For some strange reason, ties have been designated as the ideal gift for dads. Hint, unless he loves ties AND you have some fashion sense – Please IXNAY on the ties this year!

Here’s an idea that won’t get buried in the closet and has the potential to be life changing...Extend the gift of forgiveness to him and love him unconditionally!

Whether your dad was absent and awful; present and perfect; unknown and unwanted – deceased or alive.  .  .the truth is he fathers/fathered as he is/was capable. He may have blessed you or cursed you.

Today let the healing begin, free him and yourself. Lay to rest now the strongholds of anger even hatred that hinders you from loving and receiving love from him and others. Through forgiveness plant the seed of holiness, of hope and of wholeness, and pray that you remain rooted in this rich soil that produces new life and new relationships.

Forgiveness is a tried and true remedy often even more redemptive to the one who extends it. My Brother, Jesus the Christ, demonstrates the necessity of forgiveness – amid his own anguish and suffering on the cross – saying:

“Father, forgive them they don’t know what they are doing...”.

At some point, in our own anguish and frustration we too must realize and accept that there is but One Father that is Always capable of providing us the love, attention, and guidance we need and desire. If a tie is a must, let us tie our hearts and minds with forgiveness enabling us to sing and live:

“Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

Before our Father’s throne
We pour our ardent prayers;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
Our comforts and our cares.”

IXNAY on the ties – Extend the gift of forgiveness. Let this truly be a Happy Father’s Day, where Fathers, Daughters and Sons tie their hearts in Christian Love (Forgiveness)!! Even if Dad is no longer living or is unknown – Forgive Him!

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Inspired By Love,

Marcus J. Singleton
Lead Pastor

Living Faith Community

Hoover, AL

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