We lived in an urban area, Boston area, there wasn't any grass.

So we went out in the street, I had begged him.

I was trying to become a decent little league player.

I was 11 years old. And just said, you know,

please play catch with me. And so he reluctantly came out. He was very interested more in reading.

He reluctantly came out, threw a ball that bounced twice. I should have stopped it, but I missed it.

And it kept rolling and rolling. And as I'm going to retrieve it, I yelled back over my shoulder,

why didn't you throw it straight?

And thus following original sin and blaming someone else.

Retrieve the ball, look back, and my father was walking in the house

because, you know, he didn't like being yelled at that way, but that was it.

We never played catch again, so we played, yes, a tenth or a hundredth of a catch.

That's how Marvin Alaska begins, his new book, Lament for a Father, the Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness.

It's a deeply personal story about misunderstanding, mist catches, and ultimately, God's grace.

I'm Warren Smith, and today you're listening in on my conversation with World News Group,

editor-in-chief, Marvin Olasky.

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