June 20th, 2021: Happy Father's Day
Many employers have learned how to cope with the fact many of their young employees are fatherless. Supervisors realize that they are now quasi-dads to some of the people they supervise. It is a challenging job for many of them.
I have a conversation with an employee of a client on Thursday. He is never late for work. He tried very hard to get the job. He never had a job before applying to work for my client. He is not the fastest fellow I know. He shows no initiative during the first five weeks of employment. During our conversation with him, we discovered that his relationship with his dad is non-existent. His life skills are underdeveloped. He is hungry for someone to teach him things.
The sad fact is he is not alone. Fathers play many crucial roles in the development of their children: spiritual awareness, intellectual pursuit, and emotional safety. Young people do feel the pain of fatherlessness. Some will venture into other available commodities in life to numb the pain: unhealthy relationships, alcohol and drugs, and many other risky activities.
Now let us take a look at our society as it continues to advocate the abdication of God. It has become fatherless in many ways. Here is what we have seen: more insecurity, more anger, more depression, broken human relationships, fragmentation in our understanding of life, loss of appreciation for the proper boundary, our sense of disconnectedness from one another, and more.
Let us remember God, the Father of all fatherhood, who is wise, patient, kind, approachable, faithful, and loving as we say "Happy Father's Day" to fathers we know.
Psalm 103: 17-18
"But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children with those who keep his covenant and remember obey his precepts."
