Fathered by Who

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“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.”  – George MacDonald

“The one central misery. That’s worth thinking about. I didn’t used to believe it, really. You see, this fatherless has become so normal-our normal-we don’t even think about it much.” – Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You, Fathered By God, – John Eldredge.

While my father tried his best to be a good Dad to the point of going after a drug dealer suppling me drugs back in the late 1960’s – with his small hand gun, but his love for me was just not enough.

Many men have fathered me in my journey with Christ. But best of all God has adopted me into his family and I’ am a child of God.

15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[a] And by him we cry, “Abba,[b] Father.”
6 Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,[c] Father.” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.