Dads, Be Available

To my knowledge, my father never read any articles or books on the family. He certainly didn't attend any family seminars that talked about the priority of home, but somewhere along the line he gained a commitment to the priority of home and his family. He never treated family matters like rocket science. He never sat down and lectured me about the intricacies of family relationships and the strategies behind being a dad and husband. He just modeled it. . . .
Availability. 

That's the keyword: availability. Although Pop worked long hours and wasn't home evenings during the week, we were confident that if we needed him he would drop everything to be with us.

- Crawford Loritts, Never Walk Away: Lessons on Integrity from a Dad Who Lived It, (Chicago: Moody, 1997), 28.

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