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In the past, there were two persons of the Trinity whom I loved and experienced and prayed to— the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father, however, was always somewhere in the distance, a person I could not reach. I didn’t feel I was worthy to reach him, nor did I believe that he had time for me.
Within this last year, however, I have found that the Father is not only approachable, but that he longs for a relationship with his sons and daughters. We must learn to accept that and to return his love. We have to understand how real he is, how passionately in love he is with his creation, how deeply he wants to have a personal relationship with us. The Father doesn’t need this relationship, but we need it, and he wants it.
The reasons for my emotional distance from my God the Father are deep-seated. You see, I never knew my biological father as I was growing up. He was a bank robber in Indiana, and he was arrested and put in prison when I was only one week old. My mother remarried and I was given my stepfather’s name: Sheire. My…
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