This morning I woke up listening to the DJ's on K-Love talk about their fathers. You see, last night the Super Bowl was on and the most talked about commercial was from Ram Truck. You can watch this by clicking here: Ram Truck 2013 Super Bowl Commercial: Farmer | 2013 Super Bowl Commercials - Super Bowl 2013 Ads
The DJ was talking about how much he liked the commercial because it reminded him of his own dad. His dad was a farmer. A very hardworking farmer. As I laid in bed I started thinking of my own dad. He is probably one of the most hardworking men I know. He worked six days a week to make sure we had "enough". And after working six days a week he made sure we went to church every Sunday as a family. At the time I thought this was "normal".
As a grown adult now I see that this was not the norm. I pretty much had a Leave It to Beaver family and didn't realize it. Heck, we were lucky enough to grow up on a street full of Cleaver-type families.
Most people assume that my brother and I grew up wealthy because we own a successful business. I'm going to go ahead and squash that assumption. My mother was a school teacher and my father worked as a blue-collar worker at General Motors. He taught us how to save, how to serve God, and how to be kind to others.
You see these are all the things I thought about when I laid in bed around 6:30 a.m. this morning. And then at 8:30 a.m. when my mother called to say "Dad is in the hospital."... all of these thoughts came flooding back.
Funny how God works.
My dad will be okay. After almost 75 years of life they are taking out his gall bladder.
I, on the other hand, just had a slight taste of what it will be like when things won't be "okay". Because unfortunately my parent's aren't getting younger.
So take a moment, and tell your folks how awesome they are. They must have done something right... they made you.
