Later this month is Father's Day; a bittersweet day for myself as my own earthly father has long since passed on. I was the child of he and my Mother's old age, so to speak, they were in their 40's when I was born. He showed me what hard work was, what caring for a family was. He was a proud veteran of the US Navy and Coast Guard, from which he retired. He was of the generation that showed he loved you more than said it, but he went out of his way to show me through actions and gifts that I was loved.

God commands us to honor our fathers and our mothers. Honor is a word which means "to revere highly, to show great esteem for." We are not a country and a culture that honors our elders anymore. Our youth run to make their own lives without a backwards glace, and only passing calls and token remberences. Our seniors are shuffled off to homes far more often than they are cared for at home, by loving and doting children.

Not only, as a culture, do we wrong our parents and elders by how we treat them, we are also committing an offense against God. For if God has commanded we honor and care for our parents, and then we fail to do so, we obviously do not put great store by the commandments of God.

Father's Day should not be one of a few days a year you show your parent, or grandparent, a little filial love; it should be one day out 365 days where you honor them. God's commandments are not to be followed and celebrated one day a year, but all year long.