Comments on: Guide to Being a Great Godfather

By: Jess

Jess — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:06:19 +0000

I had a godfather who was wonderful until I was around seven, always sending cards and visiting to play with me and my sister. At that point he had his own children. I slipped his mind. Gradually he stopped seeing me and my sister altogether and I haven’t heard from him in years. It’s understandable (now that I’m older), but still sad.

By: Lian

Lian — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:53:50 +0000

My wonderful godfather died 2 days ago. For 32 years of my life he has been a constant support, a mentor, a confident, a friend, filled in the gaps where my own father failed and also a godfather to my own son. This man never ever failed me, never missed any occassion and praised me through ever step and fall in my life. In the past 7 months he has been battling cancer and it took him on the 1st august / honestly I’m only 32 and have lost my biggest fan and a godfather who bailed me out, kept my secrets, ran errands, listened to my woes, proof read ever word I wrote in my degree, babysat my children, treated me, trusted me and phoned me every day. He never had children of his own, he never married – but he gave me everything he could. My heart bleeds without him, a remarkable man who can never be replaced and who did call himself ‘the don’ and did surpass his godfather role and made it his life to be the best ever – god I shall miss him.
I am planning my Reading for the funeral, I must do this man justice, it’s all I have left to do for him xxxxx

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:50:42 +0000

What a great article and comments. My best friend and his wife asked me to be the godfather of their first son, born a few days ago. Having never had a god father myself, I was a bit at a loss of what was expected of me. The above comments gave me some great guidance on how to help this beautiful baby boy become a good man.

By: YoHuckleberry

YoHuckleberry — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:35:47 +0000

I found out in March that my best friend and his wife are having a baby and I was truly overjoyed. Naturally the first thing I said upon discovering this was ” And may your first child be a masculine child.” He told me that it was good that I said that seeing as how he and his wife want me to be the Godfather to their child. I’m not a very religious man, and they’re not very religious either, so I’ve been wondering what it is exactly that I should be looking forward. And here it is, once again, on AoM. A helping hand in the raising of who is soon to be the most important person in my life. Brett. Kate. Thank you so much for all of this.