How To Spend Your Very First Father's Day

This year my husband shared Father's Day with our son.

We celebrated with cards and presents, and grilled burgers and watermelon drizzled with lime juice and homemade cake batter ice cream and gooey butter cake. We played a board game of Dixit with three generations squashed around the table.

We also did something we have never, ever, ever done on Father's Day-- 

we attended the dedication service of our grandson, the firstborn son of our firstborn son on their very first Father's Day.

Our son and his wife promised, with God's grace and wisdom, to raise their son to follow God, 

while as grandparents, we stood on either side and agreed in prayer, like bookends holding up a life, 

while the uncles and aunts held three cameras and one video camera in a paparazzi cheering section in the pews. 

"He has told you, O man, what is good; 

And what does the Lord require of you

 but to do justice, to love kindness, 

and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8  

Our son read the above verse before he prayed for his son, Micah.

Jesus said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them, and blessed them. Mark 10:14-16 NIV  

It was a great way to spend a very first Father's Day.