06/21/2026
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Happy Father's Day.
And as with most holidays, I know today lands a little differently depending on who is reading this.
For some of you, today is easy. You get to call your dad. Maybe you'll have a barbecue. Maybe you'll sit around telling stories that have somehow gotten slightly more dramatic every year they've been told. Maybe you'll laugh about old family memories and roll your eyes at the same dad jokes you've heard for decades. Those are gifts. Don't take them for granted.
For some of you, though, today hurts.
Maybe your dad is already Home. Maybe Father's Day means remembering a man whose voice you can still hear in your head even though it's been years since you've heard it with your ears. Maybe it means wishing you could ask one more question, hear one more story, get one more piece of advice, or just sit across the table from him one more time.
And for some people, Father's Day is hard for a completely different reason. Not because your father is gone, but because the relationship was never what it should have been. Not everyone has memories filled with support, encouragement, and safety. Sometimes Father's Day can feel less like a celebration and more like a reminder of what should have been but wasn't.
Then there are the men who desperately wanted children and never had them. The fathers who have buried a son or daughter. The grandfathers who miss the grandkids who moved away. The stepdads wondering if the children they helped raise really know how much they love them. The foster dads who opened their homes and hearts knowing goodbyes would eventually come. The men who became father figures simply because a kid needed somebody to show up.
Many of the most important things fathers do aren't the big dramatic moments. They're the thousands of ordinary ones.
It's getting up and going to work when you'd rather stay home. It's fixing things nobody notices unless they break. It's carrying burdens quietly. It's teaching a child how to work, how to keep their word, how to treat people, how to pray, how to keep going when life gets hard.
It's being tired and showing up anyway.
A lot of fathers don't get thanked nearly enough.
The funny thing is that when we're kids, we assume our parents know everything. Then we become adults and realize they were figuring things out as they went, just like the rest of us. They made mistakes. They worried more than we knew. They carried responsibilities we never saw. And somehow, despite all that, many of them kept putting one foot in front of the other and doing the best they could.
So today, if your dad is still here, give him a call.
If he's already Home, spend a few minutes remembering him.
If Father's Day is painful, know that you're not alone.
And to all the dads, grandpas, stepdads, foster dads, adoptive dads, and father figures out there: thank you.
The world changes because ordinary men choose, day after day, to love, lead, provide, protect, teach, and show up.
That may not always make headlines.
But it matters more than most people realize.
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