Filtered against Lucifer & Moriarty.
It takes a strong man to raise a child. It takes an even stronger man to scoop a child out of a spaceship when all logic demanded that he turn in the opposite direction and leave that child to it's fate. Jonathan Kent adopted me into his life. He did so knowing that I was not from his world, and put everything he cared about at stake the second he decided to do so.
I was not an easy child to raise. One day I would be crawling along, the next I would be hurling sofas across the house in a childish temper tantrum. A farmer who was barely scraping by was nowhere near equipped to bring up someone like me; somehow, though, my father did. I'd tear a wall down, he'd put a hand to my shoulder, look me calmly in the eye, and then he would teach me. He was a patient man. Always wise. Always understanding. I know that I terrified him; I know he often felt that he had no idea what he was doing, that maybe someone else would be far more suited to raise someone up like me.
But if it wasn't for my father, I wouldn't be the man that I am today. If it wasn't for my father, I could be a science experiment or a corrupted instrument of power. Jonathan Kent did more than save my life when he found me in that field in Smallville -- he gave it to me.
I'm honored to be his son and I hope that he knows it.
I usually go out to see him on Father's Day to tell him this myself, but it looks like I won't be able to do that this year so I thought I would say it here instead.