You're experiencing healing from your past through embracing your role as a father in your family.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. So I got a question from my daughter this last week.

She was having some time with a really close friend of hers. And her friend had, has a really kind of a tragic element to their family

story. She lost her dad at when she was, when her friend was pretty young. And she said, so what do you

do when an important team member is missing, like the dad?

And that's a really obviously practical question as well, because for so many people, I think now it's more than 50% of people actually live most of their childhood without the

constant input of their biological father.

So this certainly is no longer the exception to the rule.

And so, yeah, Jeff, I wanted you to tease this out a little bit.

The one thing that I wanted it to share is just the heart of God as father for people that are in this situation.

You know, one of my favorite passages that really reflects God's heart as a father is in Psalm 65.

It says, Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

God settles the solitary in a home.

He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

And part of what this is just describing is, God as father really has a special relationship with the fatherless. And it's his intention to settle them in a home

and to make sure that they have that family experience. And oftentimes, of course,

when that's been taken from you in childhood, God will want to give that to you through your

families. You begin to establish a family into adulthood.

But I think that when you are thinking about your past in this way,

it's important to, instead of maybe saying, it doesn't matter, you know,

it's just as good to have a childhood without a father.

That's not helpful to sort of, I know that that kind of can ease some of the pain

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