From the book…
I sensed a wound of rejection in my heart. John Eldredge says in Fathered by God, “The hardest, gladdest thing in the world is to cry Father! from a full heart…the refusal to look up to God as our father is the one central wrong in the whole human affair; the inability, the one central misery.”1
It would take years to find healing for that fatherless wound in my heart.
I longed for and needed God to be my Father… This is what my dad could never teach me.
Matthew 18: 12-14
12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
I am so very grateful that Jesus left the 99 for me and now I can call him Abba (Father).
