Various Passages

How has your relationship with your earthly dad impacted your view of God? For me, my dad was a disciplinarian, distant, and disinterested in my life unless I got in trouble, so that's how I viewed God. So the idea of God the Father was always difficult for me to embrace. That was until I realized that God was Father to the fatherless, God the Father is relational, and God the Father is present. In these chaotic and tumultuous times in our nation, God is the Father that this world so desperately needs.