Holidays - Father's Day - by Jennifer Lang

 

Father's Day

Exodus 20:12 King James Version

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Father's Day in the United States is on the third Sunday of June. It celebrates the contribution that fathers and father figures make for their children's lives. Father's Day is a day for fathers and father-like figures. 

Below is information quoted from Three Hearts Church that I find helpful. Although there were pagans who celebrated various days in honor of pagan deity 'fathers', it appears that our American Father's Day is not pagan, and was made in a similar way that Mother's Day was. See the information below:

"Origin in the U.S.: On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea.

 After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June.

Several local clergymen accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, "sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city". In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972."

Only one of James' 4 kids and 2 step-kids honor him on Father's Day or any other day. His kids have some really serious issues and are in need of lots of prayer. They have all chosen lives of disobedience to Yah (adultery, stripping, witchcraft, fornication, lying, etc), and are mad at him for admonishing them to repent so they can be saved. The Wiccan daughter is the only one who keeps in touch with him and sends him her love. The others are constantly living in sin yet insist they are saved and on their way to heaven. This is probably a God-loving parent's most painful experience - to know that the children they love and had raised to love Yahuwah are going to end up in hell when their life here is over, unless they repent, and to know that they do not want to repent.