People see us as these hardened construction people who are used to getting banged in the head crawling through someone house, but there is no pain that hurts us dads more than when our kids are sick. You are standing there feeling helpless & this little person is looking at you like you are going to fix the problem, Just like you fix everything else, but you cant, and you cant tell them that, you have to sit there and smile and tell them it is going to be OK. I have 6-year-old boy and girl twins, who were born very premature, I slept in a hospital for over a month next to an incubator, I prayed a lot, the doctors filled me with fear, listing in detail all the things they said will probably go wrong with my children, but I pushed them out of my mind, and prayed harder.


But my kids are 6 now, and they are some of the healthiest children the doctors have ever seen. They get their occasional flu & high fever like other kids, but nothing the doctors said would happen, even remotely happened.


A lot of us are used to their wives praying, but to be perfectly honest, I have learned from my ordeal that it is really dads job to protect his family, it is dads faith that holds the family together, it is dads preyers that should be there first when something comes to try and take you children.


I am very moved by the number of people of faith on this site, & I am very proud of all of you for coming to the aid of your brother in his time of need, for he is a good man who is standing over his family as he should and I pray that God shall bless & stand beside him & that no foul thing shall harm the almightily’s servant nor his family.