I would say for one, it's so important for you to understand who is your God, who is this father,

who longs to father you, and spend time in the Scriptures getting to know him, you know.

He is the one from whom all fatherhood, all the families derive their name, it says in Ephesians 3.

And that actually, that Scripture was transforming for me because I realize, well wait,

fatherhood, it doesn't start with man, it actually begins with God, like he's the one who defines.

That's good.

Fatherhood because he's the first father.

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So we just had a pretty interesting weekend with Silbert and your dad's life.

Oh yeah.

You didn't know I was gonna bring that?

No, I didn't know that's where you were going.

You were smiling like, oh, we just went out of vacation.

Yeah.

Yeah, talking about that a little bit, talking about your dad.

We just had my dad's memorial on his birthday where he would have turned 93.

So when you say the word dad, we all have different feelings about that.

I have different feelings about that at different stages of his life and my life.

Because at the beginning, it was hard I would have said I'm not seen.

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