If I were a preacher, which I am not, what message would I share on Father’s Day 2023? I would begin by sharing about my earthly father, that seems reasonable. There’s the rub. We all lived in the same house, sat together at the same dinner table but we three boys, were never a part of or a reflection of the adult world of my parents. That world was the church. We were just the kids. If asked, my parents would say, we love our children but that love, if it existed, was not expressed or shared. Nothing about life and family was ever shared. I grew up believing that was normal, not understanding what I was missing. Normal, it is not.
Which is worse, never knowing your birth parents or living in the same house and never knowing your birth parents? Go figure! Because this question is so intimately involved with my story, I would choose the latter but there is pain enough in life to go all around.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
