What about the Right to Have a Father?

Written By: Coach Dave Daubenmire  |  Posted: Monday, September 13th, 2010

I am so glad I had a father. He passed away five years ago and not a day goes by that something doesn't make me think of him. I didn't choose him and he didn't choose me. He wasn't Robert Young of Father Knows Best, nor was he Sheriff Andy Taylor (any more than I was Opie), but the older I get the more I understand the impact that he had on my life.

A father leaves a footprint, for sure. Some leave a trail marked by deep crushing imprints like a journey through the mud, others have the same effect as soft slippers sliding over the shag carpet, and still others cover their tracks to leave as little an impact as possible on the lives of those whom God has entrusted them to nurture.

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