The Word Among Us

January 2025 Issue

Forgiveness Through the Father’s Love

My Journey to Healing and Peace

By: Katie Hartfiel

Forgiveness Through the Father’s Love: My Journey to Healing and Peace by Katie Hartfiel

My dad left our family when I was a senior in high school, about twenty years ago. For the first two years after his departure, my dad would return and then leave again on a regular basis, raising my hope that our family would be restored, only to have it be torn apart again and again.

Over the years, I prayed novena after novena for my dad. Most notably, I would beg St. Joseph for his intercession. But one night, I...

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