(ThyBlackMan.com) Arguably the necktie remains one of the most given gifts to fathers on Father’s Day. According to Shawna Blake, a journalist for Helium.com, “Today the necktie is a bit passé, for there are many dads who don’t find a use for the neck ornament.”
There are probably few fathers who would argue Blake’s point opting to receive instead a gift that requires just a little more thought process – maybe a new golf club, cool watch or that LaCoste sweater vest you been eyeing. I mean, if I’m given one more necktie I can open my own tie shop 
. But as I think about the concept of receiving yet another tie I begin to consider that just maybe – receiving another tie isn’t as passé as Blake concludes.
A tie represents so much more than just a tie.
Survey the pages of your dictionary and you’ll discover any number of definitions defining the word tie; 1) to fasten or secure; 2) to fasten by drawing together; 3) to bring together closely, bind or unite or 4) a beam or rod joins parts or gives support. If you unpack those verbs – those actions words, (fasten, unite, bring together, support) you uncover the qualities that make a Dad a great father.
Like a necktie a father has the amazing abilities to secure the welfare of his family. Through his strength he binds, unites, and bring his family closely together. It is the Godly spirit of a father that acts like a beam or a rod that is the provision of support for his family. Like a necktie, the importance of a father is too often handled in a passé manner.
When you see a necktie you see a father.
A necktie is an ornament that decorates the neck. A father decorates his children. A necktie, even an ugly one, is the part of the ensemble that brings everything together. The tie makes the shirt look more attractive and adds a flare to the suit that makes people say, “That’s a nice suit.” The tie might not receive a personal compliment, but the suit receives one because of the tie. That’s sounds like a great father to me. It’s not unusual for children who are excelling to be celebrated and in that festive moment it’s usually the mother who’s praised for the child’s accomplishments while dad, like that necktie, often is ignored if only for an initial moment.
If I might be truly honest, oftentimes a man will be dressed in a suit and tie and never be noticed, but let him be without a tie and he becomes like a huge pimple parked on your nose. Well how ironic is it that oftentimes when fathers whom represent the knot that keeps their family, their children together, is oftentimes marginalized by many. However, when a father fails to be in the lives of his children and there is disorder amongst them, that father becomes the false representation of many fathers.
A suit and shirt void a tie is just business casual, while a suit and shirt complemented by a tie elevates the dress to professional. A father presence around the lives of his children elevates them from children to heirs. When a man walks into a situations donning a tie and someone conveys to him how nice he looks, this is akin to how wonderful he looks when his walk provides that powerful presences for his children.
Fathers, I pray that your Father’s Day be (was) wonderful. I hope the gifts you received filled your desires. However, if you were one of the many fathers across America who, yet again, received another tie note that tie most probably represents you, “The Tie That Ties Everything Together.”
Happy Father’s Day!
Staff Writer; Reginald Williams
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