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Key Bible Verse: I will walk in my house with blameless heart (Psalm 101:2b).
Bonus Reading:1 Corinthians 4:14-17

Sometimes our lessons are good ones. Like everyone, I have racial prejudices I need to frequently confront. But I hope my sons—without me saying a word—have become more color-blind as they've seen the photos of their mother cleaning scabies off Haitian babies and by our attending a church with a black pastor and linking arms with a black ministry in rural Mississippi.

Sometimes my lessons are the wrong kinds. As a boy, it hurt deeply to hear my mother and father fight. A perfect day could turn blustery cold when their relationship iced up. Without intending to, I've taught a few similarly chilly lessons to my own sons.

Out camping, my dad showed me how to use a compass—not just the kind that tells north from south, but the kind that tells right from wrong. I learned from my father that when you reach your limit of ten fish, you don't hide five of the fish so the marine sheriff won't see them; you quit fishing. I learned you leave your campsite cleaner than you found it. I learned you don't ride a dirt bike around the campground because the peace and quiet of a group of people was more important than the freedom of one individual.

—Bob Welch in A Father for All Seasons

What lessons are you teaching?

A dad is a person who sets the example his children most want to emulate.

—Roger L. Kerr (author) Adapted from: A Father for All Seasons (Harvest, 1998).

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Prayer for the Week

God, I need Your help every day to be a good father. Thanks for the challenge of my kids.

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