"Bless The Children" - Father's Day 2009

FATHER'S DAY PICTURES - 2009 - ENJOY!

Collage of Gentry's "Moods"!!
My angel, doll-baby, stubborn, love 'em anyway "Blue Eyes"

Saying "Cheese".....

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY BABIES' BABY BLUES!

"I SOOOO DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS! GIMME A BREAK, DAWG!"



I gotta really cool dad! My parents had kids SO YOUNG, so there's only 21 years between us. He's still a kid at heart like me and we enjoy music together. He thinks Gentry is just about the best thing that could have happened to him. We gave him his very first GRANDSON! I love you dad, and hope to be able to spend more and more of these special occasions together.

Dad & his first-born child....Christine Elaine Sullivan-Cox

Daddy always said Christy got her big blue eyes from her mama!

Grandma Sullivan & her "Stevie"

Dad & His Mom (Grandma Sullivan)

THE FAMILY (minus a few...& we missed u2!) :)

Daddy & His Girls & "the suprise" of his life...Ryan Matthew!!

Mel #2, Dad, Christy #1, Ryan #4 (missing Jared #3 :( )

I wanna be JUST LIKE YOU DAD!!!! ????

Now there's some trouble in the making, right there!

My heart is full tonight, and sometimes what I "want" to say doesn't always pour itself out into words that I can put together. So often, I go looking for a song or poem that can say what my heart desires to say, but can't seem to find the right words from my own soul.

I was blessed to be able to spend the day with my husband...and father to Gentry. I am blessed beyond measure that Dale eased into the role of fatherhood so effortlessly and has made a little shadow out of the boy I call "mine".

So, I found a prayer written by someone else who's writings I've always admired & been inspired by. I thought it would be appropriate today to share this "prayer" with you simply entitled "Bless The Children"...which after all...is really what Father's Day is all about...if it weren't for our children, we'd have no need to celebrate this special day. Be blessed by this prayer as I am each time I read it.

"Bless The Children"

Bless the children.

Bless their questions and their un-jaded answers.

Bless their hands that hold my face

and peer guilelessly into my eyes.

Bless their lips that kiss without embarrassment,

their arms that hug without restraint,

their mouths that shape the deep truth in simple words - - -

"I love you."

Bless their minds that know no roadblocks

to their quest for knowledge,

no obstacles to their curiosity,

and no cynicism to block their trust.

While they still know purely, let the children teach us

While they believe openly, let the children pray for us.

While they trust us without restriction, let the children lead us.

While they know no disillusionment, let the children love us,

that we may healed

that we may trust again. . .

that we may regain our faith. . .
that we may recover our innocence. . .
that we may become children of the Father of Life.

Written by: Gloria Gaither