Daughters and their Fathers

My friend from Oregon left this on her Wall.

I had two friends who told me long ago how important their fathers were to them. When Zoe Tay intimated publicly that the closest man to her will always be her late father and he was irreplaceable, that was an unforgettable confession for people like me. She had in a local way done for fathering what Angelina Jolie had recently achieved for breast cancer awareness but Zoe Tay failed to go as far as Jolie. Perhaps she couldn't.

The trouble with these good fathers is they often made one very huge mistake. They fail to prepare their daughters for life after they are gone. I think this is the most difficult task of fatherhood and without the Gospel it would be almost impossible. For within the great goodness hides sinister evil. If only these dead fathers could know the terrible torment they left on their daughters.

It is impossible to be good except through Grace.

Teach them to SUCCESSFULLY say good bye to you while you are still living.

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours to keep. But if it never returned, it was never yours before.

This is the secret of saying good bye. Its fuller version is Jesus story of the Prodigal Son.