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> If before your son or daughter was of age to be on there own, and mentally you
> Were not there for them...Would they search for that they did not have?
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> 1. God
> 2. Love
> 3. Support
> 4. Encouragement
> 5. Shown a path
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> For if none were implemented, can you imagine the things they would cling to?
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> 1. Lust for love they did not receive.
> 2. Hate, not God, would be his world.
> 3. Confusion at every turn instead of a path to guide them.
> 4. Lack of self-esteem and self worth by not having encouragement.
> 5. Alcohol and drugs could, if not right away, become a part.
> 6. Feeling alone.
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> For if you do not teach and set an example in God, your children will wander. It is our responsibility to teach by example. For god is the light. And the way to guide your life and to guide your children's life that God has given you as a father responsibility.
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> For if you are not here, they will find a way. You allow things to come into their life, influences possible of satan.
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> Instead of truly loving, not knowing how, being fast to temper, bouncing from one job to another, never being grounded. It takes five years for a child to become stable after a divorce, add five more years for every person you bring in during that first five years.
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> You see how important it is to be in God's word, God's glory, and making solid decisions through God in your life. Being a father is not a joy you take lightly.
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> I've seen a father spank his children, and not love them afterwards. They say "IM mad, and I don't feel like loving them right now." But that's the time that they need you the most. As fathers we need to be more compassionate. To show our children how much God, and we as fathers love them. For if you believe in God, and you love your children, can you imagine how difficult it was for God to allow Jesus to be tortured, spit and beat apon? And if you do not bring your children up right, it may come to things that our Jesus went through. Just as the lord has forgiven you. So shall you as fathers forgive at the point of correction...you forgive your child. The lord does not say I forgive you, but you must suffer a while longer until I am no longer angry. The lord takes away every sin like it never existed. So shall we as fathers forgive are own children of what they do.
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> But you see in the papers all the time men abusing their wives and children, coming home beaten because they were where they should not have been.
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> Confusion, not making or not being able to truly commit to one thing. Being afraid to succeed because they were not shown through God. God does not want our children scattered. He wants them to cleave to you, to me, and most important, to him our God.
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> How many people do you know that their children have been on drugs, or have died from them? When you are on drugs, you will do and say anything to get them. Drugs are a falsehood sent by satan, to cloud our minds against God. To pacify us to where we do not care what happens.
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> Show interest in their activities. From the time they begin to learn, show enthusiam. Be committed, stand firm in God to show you, as a father, what to do. Show them how to respect them selves as well as others. It is not enough to believe that your child will somehow, by osmosis, will know you love them. And God says he loves you. You, as fathers, must stress when you say "I Love You son or I Love you daughter." Not once a week, or month, it should be a daily gift of love, as you walk daily with God. They must feel embraced by you. As God loves you. A child must feel it and hear it.......
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> What do you think?
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> Steve Wilson

I agree with all the love stuff, but I'm not to attached to your constant use of God. There are a lot of Wiccans, Atheists, Buhhdists, Hindus, and others who are good loveing parents. Family values are not trademarked to Catholics.

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