As it is Father's Day, today is a great day to reflect upon your Father and what he has done for you.
Here are two great talks by President Ezra Taft Benson.
In the first, I love these thoughts (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1981/04/great-things-required-of-their-fathers?lang=eng):
In the first, I love these thoughts (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1981/04/great-things-required-of-their-fathers?lang=eng):
One great thing the Lord requires of each of us is to provide a home where a happy, positive influence for good exists. In future years the costliness of home furnishings or the number of bathrooms will not matter much, but what will matter significantly is whether our children felt love and acceptance in the home. It will greatly matter whether there was happiness and laughter, or bickering and contention.
Your supreme opportunity in life is fatherhood! These words directed to fathers by President David O. McKay should be framed by every father:
“When one puts businesses or pleasure, or the earning of additional income, above his home, he that moment starts on the downgrade to soul weakness. When the club becomes more attractive to any man than his home, it is time for him to confess in bitter shame that he has failed to measure up to the supreme opportunity of his life, and flunked in the final test of true manhood.
“The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of far greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles, and will work miracles. Pure hearts in a pure home are always in whispering distance of Heaven.” (Church News, 7 Sept. 1968, p. 4.)
Fathers, what is the spirit in your homes?
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
