Our Father's Legacy

Not all of us have the chance to say goodbye.  Fortunately, I was able to read this to My Father a few days before he passed and to share this with the rest of my family.  Now, I'm sharing it with you.



If you watch shows like Downton Abbey,  you see what effect great patriarchs have on their families.  It goes back to God's commandment to be fruitful and multiply and his promise to Abraham that his children would be like the stars in the sky.  Our Father has passed such a legacy to us, a legacy that we can trace back for many generations in a Bible that tracks not only the fathers but also the mothers. 

It is not just the Fulton Clark name that has passed down even to his great grand-kids. It is a sense of good character, selfless integrity, and commitment to service to God and community that governs our lives balanced by independence, creativity, and intellectualism that grows into wisdom.  

Each of his offspring has carried forth a bit of that legacy.  Many of us are musicians, some of us writers, one a pastor, but all of us dreamers as his children become as numerous as the stars.   

Our Father has been for us an inspiration that has given us a concrete example of our heavenly Father's love. It is one we each try to follow as parents.