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Category: Relationships / Topics: Character, Integrity • Family • Father's Day • Holidays • Memories • Relationships • Tribute, Testimony
With Thoughts of My Dad
Posted: June 18, 2022
From the time I was three I wanted to be like my dad…
When I sit at my keyboard,
the sick are consoled.
Those troubled in spirit
are suddenly whole.
The grieving, encouraged.
The worried, relieved.
When I type “in the Spirit,”
God’s will is achieved.
If I asked how I learned how
to uplift the sad,
I know what to answer.
I credit my dad.
You modeled the comfort
the Scripture affords
when you translate God’s truth
into everyday words.
I miss you, Pop!
** I wrote this wee verse (based on the accompanying photo) for my pastor-dad as my Fathers’ Day greeting in 1999. The photo pictures me as a three-year-old sitting at my dad’s manual Royal typewriter in his church office in 1955. My dad passed away on November 4, 2008 at the age of eighty-two.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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