15/06/2025
Happy Father’s Day!
Today we wanna re-share what Dr. W. Jack Hudson, wrote to honor his Dad, James “Papa” Hudson, on Fathers’ Day, June 1978:
“ Being the youngest of eight children during the depression years had its problems. Dying for attention wasn’t the easiest thing to do since I was competing with my brothers and sisters, an assortment of animals ranging from fuzzy little kittens to a row-boned ole mule named Jack, (my brother Carl, always told me I was named after it.) I learned to change my own diapers, make my own formula and split the kindling, so Carl, who was assigned to care for me, could lie on his back and study the summer cloud formation. He had to do this, he said, so he could become an astronomer. When I would ask what that was, he explained, “An astronomer is a person who lies on his back in the summer and studies cloud formation and can’t be bothered by splitting kindling.”My brother, Carl, taught me so many things like that. But my Father taught me the value of character by his example and daily living. He taught me to love music by singing about the Lord in his rich bass voice. He is living with the Lord now, but I can hear him singing yet in my mind. I can’t ever remember waking up in the mornings without hearing him singing in the house. He taught me the value of a clean mind. I never heard him utter any kind of profanity or vulgarity. He never gambled or even tasted alcohol. That’s the kind of examples little boys can understand. He treated ladies in the kindest way and respected them as sisters in the Lord. He was faithful to his marriage vows and taught us to the value of marriage. He clutched me to his side as they buried the body of my Mother and sobbed as loudly as I did. Somehow I knew a wife was very important to a man. He also taught me how to die. At 82 he rested his head on the promises of the Lord, looked me in the eye and told me he was ready to meet Him. I preached his funeral with confidence of seeing him again in heaven. That’s the kind of example a son can understand.”
“Whatever the Lord lets me become, I doubt I'll ever measure up to my Dad!” W. Jack Hudson June 18, 1978.
Originally shared by Dr. Hudson’s son, Mark Hudson.
