Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

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Father’s Day Wishes and Messages…
Dads are so special! We need to celebrate these strong, funny, amazing men, and you’re in luck – we have a huge collection of Father’s Day messages and wishes to do just that.

If dad has been an ever-present force of love, support and guidance in your life, it can be hard to know just the right words to express your gratitude and admiration when it comes time to honor him on Father’s Day.

But with the big day coming up on June 16, our diverse list of the best Father’s Day quotes can help you nail just the right sentiment to inscribe as a message for your Father’s Day card, a caption for a social media tribute, a giant poster hanging over his desk…

You are sure to find the perfect wish for your father to put into words just how incredible you think he is and thank him for all that he has done for you.

Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

Happy Father’s day to the coolest Dad ever!

Happy Father’s day to the best Dad in the world!

To the world’s best Dad, happy Father’s day!

Thanks Dad for everything you do for us. Happy Father’s Day.

I am so lucky to have you you as my father-in-law. Thanks for being so wonderful!

Happy Father’s day to my wonderful Daddy. I love you to the moon… and back!

Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful daddy. Thanks for always being there for us.

Out of all the dads in the world I think we got the best one! Happy Father’s day.

Dad—you’ve made my life so much better. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Thank you for giving fatherhood your all. You’ve made me the person I am today.

I love you and I treasure the family we’ve built together. Happy Father’s Day!

I’m thinking of everything you’ve done for our family today, and I’m feeling so, so thankful.

Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

“Happy Father’s Day! You’re not just my father, but one of my closest friends.”

“Happy First Father’s Day! Being a father is the most important job a man will ever have.”

“Wishing you a Happy First Father’s Day as you enjoy the infinite love and gifts of fatherhood.”

“Dad, you are my hero and my role model. Thanks for being here for me and being a great example.”

Happy Father’s Day to the coolest dad on the planet! Thanks for being you.

God took the strength of a mountain, the patience of eternity, and combined them to create the thing we call dad.

Thanks for all the fun times we’ve shared together, you’re such an amazing Daddy! Happy Father’s day!

“Happy Father’s Day, Grandpa! I have been given one of God’s greatest blessings a phenomenal grandfather!”

I’m so grateful for all your guidance and wisdom, you really are the best father-in-law! Happy Father’s day!

Psalm 103:13: “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”

Proverbs 22:6: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”

Praise Those Fathers

Let us praise those fathers who have striven to balance the demands of work, marriage, and children with an honest awareness of both joy and sacrifice.

Let us praise those fathers who, lacking a good model for a father, have worked to become a worthy and virtuous father.

Let us praise those fathers who, by their own account, were not always there for their children, but who continue to offer those children, now grown, their love and support. As well, let us pray for those fathers who have been wounded by words and actions of their children.

Let us praise those fathers who, despite marital discord, have remained in their children’s lives.

Let us praise those fathers whose children are adopted, and whose love and support has nurtured a thriving life.

Let us praise those fathers who, as stepfathers, freely choose the obligation of fatherhood and earned their step children’s love and respect.

Let us praise those fathers who have lost a child to death, and continue to hold the child in their heart.

Let us praise those men who have no children, but cherish the next generation as if they were their own.

Let us praise those men who have “fathered” us in their role as mentors and guides.

Let us praise those men who are about to become fathers; may they openly delight in their children.

And let us praise those fathers who have died, but live on in our memory and whose love continues to nurture us.

– Prayer of Kirk Loadman adapted by Debra Mooney, PhD

Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

A Prayer for All Fathers on Father’s Day(short)

Lord, we pray specifically for fathers and fatherhood across our land. Your Word clearly instructs fathers to bring up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). God, we thank You for the men who are leading according to Your statutes and the ones that are laying their lives down for Your purposes. We pray that You will continue to use these men to lead their families and other men. We pray You will strengthen the fathers of our nation and that You will continue to empower churches, organizations, and individuals to invest in fathers and fatherhood for the sake of our children.

Those Winter Sundays

BY ROBERT HAYDEN

Sundays too my father got up early

and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

then with cracked hands that ached

from labor in the weekday weather made

banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he’d call,

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,

who had driven out the cold

and polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

of love’s austere and lonely offices?

The Race

When I got to the airport I rushed up to the desk,

bought a ticket, ten minutes later

they told me the flight was cancelled, the doctors

had said my father would not live through the night

and the flight was cancelled. A young man

with a dark brown moustache told me

another airline had a nonstop

leaving in seven minutes. See that

elevator over there, well go

down to the first floor, make a right, you’ll

see a yellow bus, get off at the

second Pan Am terminal, I

ran, I who have no sense of direction

raced exactly where he’d told me, a fish

slipping upstream deftly against

the flow of the river. I jumped off that bus with those

bags I had thrown everything into

in five minutes, and ran, the bags

wagged me from side to side as if

to prove I was under the claims of the material,

I ran up to a man with a flower on his breast,

I who always go to the end of the line, I said

Help me. He looked at my ticket, he said

Make a left and then a right, go up the moving stairs and then

run. I lumbered up the moving stairs,

at the top I saw the corridor,

and then I took a deep breath, I said

goodbye to my body, goodbye to comfort,

I used my legs and heart as if I would

gladly use them up for this,

to touch him again in this life. I ran, and the

bags banged against me, wheeled and coursed

in skewed orbits, I have seen pictures of

women running, their belongings tied

in scarves grasped in their fists, I blessed my

long legs he gave me, my strong

heart I abandoned to its own purpose,

I ran to Gate 17 and they were

just lifting the thick white

lozenge of the door to fit it into

the socket of the plane. Like the one who is not

too rich, I turned sideways and

slipped through the needle’s eye, and then

I walked down the aisle toward my father. The jet

was full, and people’s hair was shining, they were

smiling, the interior of the plane was filled with a

mist of gold endorphin light,

I wept as people weep when they enter heaven,

in massive relief. We lifted up

gently from one tip of the continent

and did not stop until we set down lightly on the

other edge, I walked into his room

and watched his chest rise slowly

and sink again, all night

I watched him breathe

by Sharon Olds

Ice

My father spent his last winter
Making ice-grips for shoes

Out of strips of inner tube and scrap metal.
(A device which slips over the instep

And holds under the shoe
A section of roughened metal, it allows you to walk

Without fear of falling
Anywhere on the ice or snow.) My father

should not have been doing
All that close work

In the drafty workshop, but as though
he sensed travel at the edge of his mind,

He would not be stopped. My mother
Wore them, and my aunt, and my cousins.

He wrapped and mailed
A dozen pairs to me, in the easy snows

Of Massachusetts, and a dozen
To my sister, in California.

Later we learned how he’d given them away
To the neighbors, an old man

Appearing with cold blue cheeks at every door.
No one refused him,

For plainly the giving was an asking,
A petition to be welcomed and useful-

Or maybe, who knows, the seed of a desire
Not to be sent alone out over the black ice.

Now the house seemed neater: books,
Half-read, set back on the shelves;

Unfinished projects put away.
This spring

Mother writes to me: I am cleaning the workshop
And I have found

So many pairs of the ice-grips,
Cartons and suitcases stuffed full,

More than we can ever use.
What shall I do? And I see myself

Alone in that house with nothing
But darkly gleaming cliffs of ice, the sense

Of distant explosions,
Blindness as I look for my coat-

And I write back: Mother, please
Save everything.

Mary Oliver

Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

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Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

Father’s Day Wishes and Messages

Praise Those Fathers

A Prayer for All Fathers on Father’s Day(short)

Those Winter Sundays

BY ROBERT HAYDEN

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