The parallels are the same with our Heavenly Father. We are created in his image, and we strive to emulate his divine qualities, such as charity. Daily we seek his counsel in prayer as we manage the choices of our lives.
In a righteous setting, our earthly father helps us to comprehend what our Heavenly Father is like.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland shared the following: “One new father wrote: ‘Often as I watch my son watch me, I am taken back to moments with my own dad, remembering how vividly I wanted to be just like him. I remember having a plastic razor and my own can of foaming cream, and each morning I would shave when he shaved. I remember following his footsteps back and forth across the grass as he mowed the lawn in summer.

Now I want my son to follow my lead, and yet it terrifies me to know he probably will. Holding this little boy in my arms, I feel a ‘heavenly homesickness,’ a longing to love the way God loves, to comfort the way He comforts, to protect the way He protects. The answer to all the fears of my youth was always ‘What would Dad do?’ Now that I have a child to raise I am counting on a Heavenly Father to tell me exactly that.” (May 1999, The Hands of the Fathers)
Happy Fathers Day to all the great fathers in our lives.