6.25- My first father's day and today I knew what my father showed me.

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My first father's day and today I knew what my father showed me. The first day of the week is a day to clean your mind and body and be your best self. Put your best foot forward. Shining, smile drenched in joy was in our hearts as we headed to church services.
There I would meet with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and others. We would have Sunday School. There the children were taught by Frances Land Fields. She was a banker on Monday through Saturday but on Sunday she was a teacher at the Oak Ridge church. Ed Fink was a gin worker on Monday through Saturday, but on Sunday morning at 9.30am he was the teenager Sunday school teacher. My aunt Laura Milton was the ladies Sunday school teacher.
Then at 10.30am we had church service. Uncle Bob Wishard was the adult Sunday school teacher for the men. There in Sunday school there was a discussion of the hard questions and illustrations and testimony of how God had blessed us with rain or healing or comforted us in grief.
We studied the Scriptures, apostles teaching about following Jesus. Teachers would be high school students, college students, Farmers, grocery store workers on Monday through Saturday but on Sunday they were making a bridge between God and humans by teaching from the Bible.
We ate the bead and drank the grape juice and gave our money to help the needs in the community. Then my dad, Wayne Wishard or other men would lead a closing prayer. I would run out of the building and head out to lunch then playing football, baseball, basketball, ride horses with Joe Wishard or play games with Eddie Thompson.
My father taught me that Sunday was a day to put your best foot forward to give encouragement to others and receive it yourself when needed.
Sunday was a day to eat well and rest well and be hopeful of our future together with our family and community.
My father taught me that Sunday was a special day for worship, play and rest is to spiritually refuel for a great week of work. Work is to provide for yourself and your family and others who have needs. That is what my father taught me and what Sheila's father taught her and what Sheila and I tried to teach or children and grandchildren. Happy Father's day.
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