What Father Teaches...

·         He teaches kindness by being thoughtful and gracious even at home.

·         He teaches patience by being gentle and understanding over and over.

·         He teaches honesty by keeping his promises to his family even when it costs.

·         He teaches courage by living unafraid with faith, in all circumstances.

·         He teaches justice by being fair and dealing equally with everyone.

·         He teaches obedience to Gods Word by precept and example as he reads and prays daily with his family.

·         He teaches love for God and His Church as he takes his family regularly to all the services.

SUMTSAN NA JINGHKAI WA

Marit Seng Ja Pan

Tsawra matsan dum chye ai Wa,
Ngai kasha a ntsa,
Shawnglam Wa Nang mu mada,
Arawng aya hpe tawnda,
Hpaji lam ni Wa Nang sharin ya,
Ngai tsawra dik ai Wa.
Jamjau jamhkau lam kaw na,
Wa Nang ngai hpe bau maka;

Ruyak jamjau Ngai n hkrum,
Wa a shingnip kata nga yang lum,
Mungsung Gasung Nang hkum;
Wa a matsun maroi,
Ngai'sha a hpaji sumdoi,
Manap Jan zawn htoi;

Hpaji lam ni hpe Ngai wundoi,
Maigan mungdan ni mung proi.
Wa hte tsan-gang nga ten,
Ngai'sha myit dun let garen;
Madu kaw myit dum kyu hpyi,
Manu dan ai asi Ngai si;

Wa a majaw ngai,
Janmau lu ni ai.
Wa a Sali wunli gaw,
Daini Nye a Sumsaw;

Shinglet hte tsun n dang ai chyeju,
Gadai kaw na mung Ngai n mai lu,
Tsawra Wa Ugut gu nga u ga ngu,
Wa hpe myitdum let,
Kyuhpyi bunglet,
Chyeju Shamawn makyet
--- dat nngai Wa e.

  Kawa hte Seng ai Ga Malai ni

"Tinang a kasha hpe atsawm chye ai kawa gaw hpaji rawng ai kawa re." -- William Shakespeare

"To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway

       "Kawa langai gaw sara latsa hta grau nga ai." -- English Proverb

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Gabriel García Márquez

Naw kaji ai ma hpe yu u shi kaning re ai kanu lu ai lam chye lu na re, kaba sai ma hpe yu u shi kaning re ai kawa lu ai lam chye lu na re- - Arabian Ga Malai

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud

Kawa a lagaw hkang hpe yu u shi a kasha gara lam de  du na tak sawn lu na re, kanu a lata hkang hpe yu u shi a kasha kade tsan hkra hkawm na tak sawn lu na re- - African Ga Malai

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child

Pangmu Zau

Olympic Games

One of the most powerful stories in the history of the Olympic Games involved a canoeing specialist named Bill Havens. He was a shoe-in, Im told, to win a gold medal in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. But a few months before the Games were held, he learned that his wife would likely give birth to their first child while he was away. She told him that she could make it on her own, but this was a milestone Bill just didnt want to miss. So he surprised everyone and stayed home. Bill greeted his infant son, Frank, into the world on August 1, 1924. Though he always wondered what might have been, he said he never regretted his decision. Well, he poured his life into that little lad and shared with him a love for the rapids. Twenty-four years passed, and the Olympic Games were held in Helsinki, Finland. This time Frank Havens was chosen to compete in the canoeing event. The day after the competition, Bill received a telegram from his son that read: Dear Dad, Thanks for waiting around for me to be born in 1924. Im coming home with the gold medal that you should have won. It was signed, Your loving son, Frank.

Many would question Bill Havens decision to miss his big opportunity in Paris, but he never wavered. He wanted his family to know that they always came first, no matter what. And that made him a hero to a little boy named Frank.

Dr. James Dobson, Coming Home, Timeless Wisdom for Families, (Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton; 1998), pp. 140-141

Build Me a Son, O Lord

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, I have not lived in vain.

-General Douglas MacArthur