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Letter to My Father
When we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Letter to My Father came to me in a whisper
savior, we are taught to look at him as our father. from God; spoken softly, but with so much power
We learn that he loves and cares for us, as a good and forcefulness that I couldn’t help but know his
father does. He protects us, feeds and clothes us; voice.
sends his angels to protect us while going out and
coming in. He listens earnestly to our prayers and “How will my children believe my love for them
considers our problems. He is the Good Father, when they have been hurt by the earthly fathers,
our Heavenly Father, and we willingly humbled I have put over them? So many people need to be
ourselves at his feet. psychologically healed so they can clearly hear
God’s Words and feel his Truth.” God showed me
But, what if your perception of what a father is, that he can heal anyone from anything in any
what he should do for his child, has been altered manner he chooses. He created the oncologist,
by your treatment of your earthly father. How gave his healing knowledge to the cardiologist,
easily would it be for you to think of God as your touched the hands of the spinal surgeon, and
father? How would you relate to what he has to trained the psychologist to help repair the minds
offer from the spiritual plane, when your earthly of the broken.
plane has been shattered mentally, or physically, Letter to My Father began in the living room of
or both, by the man you call father? What if your my pastor’s home, with a group of women who
father died when you were a child, leaving you wanted to explore their relationship with their
without the knowledge of a maternal relationship? fathers - how that relationship, or lack of relation-
ship, had influenced their decision-making and
What if your father abandoned you, or molested life choices. The ages of these women ranged from
you, or ignored you to the point of understanding the late twenties to the early sixties. For the first
that you meant very little to him? Would you still time in their lives, women talked about how their
be able to call him father? How then, would you relationship or lack of relationship with their
call God your Father? How then could you come to father had affected their lives. (One attendant had
love and trust him; to truly believe that he loves married an alcoholic after watching her father
you as his child and only wants the best for you? died from homemade liquor as a child.) Amaze-
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