Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Influence
12/07/2010 12:28:00 PM | 
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This time of the year brings back a lot of memories both good and bad… one of the good ones are of times my dad would make us shovel snow for Emery and Ethel, an elderly couple who lived next door to us. My brothers and I hated doing this the first few years we were drafted into this non-government sanctioned form of child labor, however as the years passed, I at least (don’t want to speak for my brothers on this one) came to expect it. When I was 12, we moved away from our home on 4th street
That winter, I asked my dad who would shovel snow for Emery and Ethel that year, and he said we would. So my dad and I got dressed up and geared up to go snow shoveling. We drove 30 minutes back over to our old place and shoveled their snow. In thinking about what it means to be a good daddy, I think of what my daddy did for me. He taught me what it was to be a servant of the Lord not only by what he said and told me to do, but by his actions. See, when us boys were shoveling snow, so was he. In fact, we really weren’t doing a whole lot. In the time it took the three of us boys to clear a 9 ft section of side walk (3 ft per kid), dad would have gotten 3 times that done. He really didn’t need our help, he was trying to pass this desire to help others in need on to us.
Now that I’m the daddy, I hope that I can do the same.
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