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This is so true. I realized that instead of letting myself be a ‘victim’ that I could break the cycle and choose to build my integrity as a man to provide for others and be of service. It worked, thank God 🙏
That depends on the individual. Some have the capacity to heal from the negative effects of fatherlessness through fatherhood, others have no business having families until they substantively address the contradictions in their own lives, especially those who are addicted to drugs, mentally ill (e.g. schizophrenic) or developmentally disabled (e.g. autism, ADHD, etc.).
@@dravenocklost4253 I included ADHD because it is scientifically recognized as a chronic and debilitating mental disorder by the psychiatric community that adversely affects the quality of life of those who suffer from it. Someone prone to inordiante inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity is not going to have the necessary self-discipline to meet the demands of raising a child. I don't mean this in an offensive way; I'm simply stating a fact. Anyone suffering from mental illness needs to submit to structured therapy and, if necessary, medication in order to get control over their lives first before they even think about starting a family.
Thank you Father Moses. I’m 27 years old, my dad died from alcoholism and drug abuse when I was 12. He was the only parent I had left that tried. I was devastated for the longest time, but overtime, I learned from my dads situation. I vowed to myself that I would strive to be the father that’s always there for his kids, hopefully the Lord helps me fulfill this desire 🙏🏻☦️
As a Greek orthodox Christian...I only wish the priest I came across in my life in the Greek churches motivated me like you have. I thank you!...We need more priest, even deacons in orthodoxy preach/talk from a realistic relatable perspective...it really helps us come to turns with things we struggle with instead of only approaching life battles from a biblical point of view...We need more like you in our churches.
@@dnnnnnnnnnng well, I hope this is inspired by the saints and the scriptures, because Christ spoke so much about forgiveness, embracing your Cross, and following Him. :)
Again your video speaks to me and resonates with me. I have been an unbeliever the majority of my life but I feel God calling to me. On your last video you advised me in the comments to pray to cut unforgiveness from my heart. Today I will do that, and today I will order a Bible. Thank you Father Moses.
Yes come home to the Holy Orthodox Church! I am not in it, nor am I a catechumen, but I am wholeheartedly in love with it and I cannot wait to pursue it.
@@fathermosesmcphersonmy orthodox study bible has arrived, and tomorrow I will attend my 1st service. I have been invited to attend on a Wednesday where Father John will have more 1 on 1 time for me. I am excited and nervous. There's much wrong I've done in this life. There's much to remedy, much to repent for... and so much I have yet to offer. THANK YOU!
My great-grandfather run away, when my grandfather was a baby. My grandfather was a truck driver and only one weekend in month at home to see my father. My father divorced my mother when I was two years old. Its complicated to have a stable life when you have such a family. But I hope than one day with the help of God I will break the curse and be a real father for my children
Amen brother! I had the luck of having a stable famiily and hearing your testimony brings teara to my eyes (in the best sense) not only to be great full for my luck but also for the hope that you show. All the best luck mate! 🇪🇸
My father ditched my mother and I before I even turned 1. I am the man I am today, in spite of him. His absence made me into a good husband, a good father, and a good son. Thanks Be to God.
I'm having a very difficult time being resilient - as in not letting my father's failures sap the energy out of my life. I cry out to God on a daily basis, it seems I can't be strong every single day even though I should be!
My dad, similar to yourself, had serious issues with his father. i only met my grandfather once. My dad, out of sheer resilience and love, determined to be the opposite for us kids. He loved us unconditionally. Not one time did i doubt my dad's love for me. He was stern when i needed it, and merciful when i needed it. He didn't shirk his responsibilities, but suffered to uphold them. I'm thankful every day for this blessing from God, and i know your children will be too.
My father was never in my life. I was born out of wedlock and he and my mother never maintained a relationship. I met him one time and he intimated that because I existed and was in the back of his mind that he was never able to bond and have a close relationship with his other son whom he reared. (Nice of him to burden me with the guilt trip just for being alive!) I saw there was nothing for me in having a relationship with him so that was the first and last time I saw him. I never once got a birthday card from him before or since and I don’t even know if I’ll attend his funeral or even if I’ll be invited. I should be hurting a lot over it I guess but to be honest, it’s kind of like a having scar tissue where’s there’s no sensation so I can be magnanimous and contented with the blessings God has bestowed upon me with my own family. Thanks for your testimony, I rarely speak of any of this to anyone so it’s relieving for me to get it off my chest.
I first met my father when I was 28. It was so strange and awkward. Now I'm 35, already have my own daughter. We communicate from time to time, but I think I don't have any special feelings towards him. Don't know whether I fulfill the commandment "honor your father" or not with such attitude... But at least I didn't reject him although I could. So maybe yes. God bless!
I think it’s so important to share experiences with one another so someone else can relate or say me too and not feel alone but also find a way forward to heal
My dad was an atheist Marxist and passed when I was 17. I really believe God allowed this to happen, so I could appreciate the value of family and continue my dad's quest for truth... My dad was a mathematician and extremely honest, even to his own detriment. Funnily enough, following his pursuit for truth led me to question my dad's presuppositions - and that led me to Christ and his wonderful bride, the orthodox church. Now, I pray for my dad's soul. May God have mercy on us sinners 🙏☦️
Thanks Father Moses for this talk. I too grew up with a father in the home but he was and is an absentee dad with a major narcissistic personality. It took a good portion of my 20s to forgive him and realize that he did give me a gift and that is knowing what not to do when it comes time for my own family.
Father i can relate 100% to this, i grew up while my father was in another country, my mom working to support, i have almost no friends because they od or they are still strugling and i almost died 2 times....last year i had an epileptic seizure because of substances and when i went home i read the phrase of our Christ "“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” It was from a New Teastament that one of my friends who had died gave it to me, while i was an atheist.that moment i felt that someone really loved me truly and unconditionaly...i started crying alone in my house and asking for forgiveness, after 20 years of darkness and since then i feel like my life has changed upside down, but the truly good way. God bless you Father, greetings from Greece
I have not begun seeing the video yet, but this day I felt like my father could have done something more for me and defend me from my mother’s rage, since the father is the head of the home, but he does not believe in this and lets the wife be the “boss”. I do much for my family and yet I got no recognition of what I did, and in a split moment of rage all remembrance of what I do for them goes out the window… I feel terrible, and now this video pops up in my feed. I know Jesus Christ is Lord and I must honor my father and mother, and seeing this video popping up just in this exact moment is God trying to speak to me through this pastor. I do not know much about him, but God is surely using this video for me right now. I write this as testimony so others can edify their faiths in Christ Jesus. May the Father settle down this rage within me and keep my eyes on the Lord and forgive them, in Jesus name.
The two sides of it.... When the Voice of the Mother Does not matter, or when the strength of the father does not matter... We Pray for Miracles everyday. You've got to believe it. My Father just had the first man to man talk with me during my entire life and the old sport broke into tears over how wrong he had raised me with so much hate and violence... He visited a Church and he said God spoke to him about his wrongdoings. Pray so that this miracle may come to you too!
I’ve been praying for this exact video Fr 😭😭😭 Learning to pray was/is very difficult for me because I could never talk to my Dad about anything. As a result I just bottled up my feelings, got horribly mentally ill, and coped with self-harming practices. It’s getting better, but for a few weeks I just had to cry to God after my prayers. I would cry for a long time. God listened and helped me like He promised.
My father was abusive on many levels, he beat me pretty severely, but the worst part was he convinced me I was unworthy of love. that's been my biggest stumbling point with God, how can God love me when my own father didn't? pray for me father.
You probably already know this but every human is imperfect including your dad and he doesn't have the final say on anything including anything to do with you only God does and God hasn't taken you from the earth he still keeps here because he loves you and he wants you to love him and he still wants that opportunity So remember if you're still breathing God loves you and he wants you here
So sorry to hear of your experience with your father. God loves each one of us unconditionally. Your father was not a good human being but God loves you and knows every hair on your head. Please hold on to Christ, ask God to forgive your father and let go of the past. I pray that you will find a wonderful spouse and be the best God driven parent you can be for your children- sacrificial, loving and a wonderful example for them to look up to and follow. May God bless you. Praying for you🙏☦️
Thank you father Moses . I am RC but adore your preachingings. I love my father very much , he taught me many moral standards , but at the same time as a young child he and my mother were violent . He drank often . Around 12 they divorced , for whatever reason at the time not sure if it was gods grace or what but my only concern was for the fighting to stop so I was happy they split up. At least that’s what I thought . I’m 30 now and have recently come back to the church , and I wonder how different my teenage and young 20s would have been had I been able to run to Christ . I spent those years doing drugs , dropping out, joining graffiti gangs in a big city , as I grew up I searched for meaning healthier places but still , hole wasn’t filling . My behavior truly wasn’t growing . I didn’t truly feel a man. With Christ now , with Mary , I feel all that stuff is OK . As you are saying , I believe this all will make me a very great person in sharing his word , and really trying to do my best to be in his image . There’s nooo reason murking in the mud . I’m amazed to see what man Christ makes of me. I do love my father very much for the record , he’s changed and repented . My mother didn’t mean anything wrong either . It’s tough being human and I get it , it’s great having a good relationship now
And if anyone reads this, my ptsd from street fights I got in , physical anxiety symptoms I’d struggle witn like cold sweating and shaking , poor blood circulation, IBS, It’s all come down 90% through Christ . Therapy , medication, meditating , it couldn’t address this the same way !
My father hospitalised me when i was 16, i havent let him in my home for 5 years. It brings me alot of pain, hopefully the Lord aids me in this trouble
I’ve had a lot of these moments of almost feeling imposter syndrome for being able to have made it this far in life. I am still so far from where I need to be as a man, but every moment, every second that I turn to Christ, the meaning in life, the ability to be someone who others need, to become the person I needed, is there. Thank you for sharing Father Moses and God Bless you.
My father was sadly not in my life growing up much, and died when I was 10. I always felt this terrible hole in my heart and I knew that it's because of his absence. This video, and the other one that is more recent, are God sends, because it's the answers for what I've been looking for! Godbless father!
Thanks. God bless you Father Moses ❤🙏🏾 I never had a dad but I have forgiven him years ago and now, he even might become Christian, pray for him pls.🙏🏾🤍
I found Christ in the darkness, and in his loving silence, he spurred me towards the light. Im not at the source, but maybe by his mercy, i may touch its edge one day. God bless you Fr. Moses.
I absolutely love this message. I have a (Earthly) father who I don’t think was really that much of one from about the age of 13/14 onward. Despite everything that has happened, I’ve always said that I was thankful (as much as I was bitter) for my Dad because he showed me exactly the things that I would never allow myself to become, God Willing. I really sincerely hope that I can be a brilliant Dad one day, and everybody reading this comment as well, so I can give what I was never given. God bless you
Father, your video, as always, just hits the spot. As a Roman Catholic heavily inquiring into Orthodoxy, these videos just tip the scale, even if bit by bit. I've been tired of all of this, asking God for guidance on this issue of mine, watching your videos, debates and whatnot. Honestly it made a mess inside my head but ever since I woke up this morning, I feel like all of this is coming to an end. Whatever happens I just wanted to thank you, Father, because your videos are just real and it seems like you truly consider your viewers as your spiritual children, wishing the best for them, giving advice, caring like a father. I really wanted to say this for quite some time now, so once again, thank you Father. God bless!
Father Moses, it's a blessing to have come through your channel. I can completely relate to all that you said. You give hope to so many of us. Recently married. Hopefully a dad soon. Lots of love and prayers.
Thank you for this video, Father Moses. I have very similar father wounds to you, and hearing your story and how Christ has emboldened you as a father was deeply moving. My dad was largely absent while growing up, addicted to lust and selfish pleasures. My parents got divorced when I was very young as a result. I know that his father was very similar when he was young, so it can easily be a repeating cycle of wounded boys becoming wounded men. Not having a father emotionally present while growing up leaves lasting wounds on a young boy that affect him for life. Wounds that only Christ can heal in order to break the chain of absentee fathers. Thank you for sharing your story.
I don't normally comment on videos. But I want to say thank you for sharing this. My parents divorced when I was 7 and I never really saw my dad much after that. He was verbally and physically abusive to my family. Im 20 now and have been dealing with that same mental warfare you are explaining and Im thankful that I am not alone. My main goal in life is to be the father I never had.
Thank you father. This one was deep. Like many other men here, my father was absent from my life and then died when I was 20. I only have a handful of memories with him, but I forgive him completely and pray for his soul. I am a young married man with a son of my own now. Trying my best to provide the kind of love and life they deserve. It’s tough but it’s the most meaningful endeavor I could imagine.
I'm 32 years old, and you just spoke to me down to the teeth. Only thing is that i pray I will be able to have those tears of joy when, God willing, I have my children. Thank you for sharing such video, to YHWH be all the glory.
There is absolutely no one who just captures my exact experience like this. It’s almost like he is narrating my life path. Recently learned that I can get some of my needs met from older role models. Please pray for me so that I see God as the perfect key for my lock representing an emotionally absent father.
My father choose his death, lost him at 4. I will do absolutely everything in my power to be nothing like my father, but to humbly surprass him on every level. I WILL find a way to succeed. God Willing.
Thank you for the wisdom today. Much of our generation is struggling to be a man and father without having the model for what that looks like. God bless 🙏🏻☦️
This was very relatable. Thank you for sharing. The hurt may never go away, but we can always strive to do better for the children we bring into this world.
Thank you father Moses for being emotionally open and authentic. It takes a certain level of courage, maturity and humility to be able to do so. It also makes the messages more human and relatable. God bless.
What an astounding message of hope, I have had similar struggles as you have described and I pray that the end result may be similar in my life as well.
As many others have said, incredibly relatable. I'll spare the story, but I was right there with ya during the video. Ya choked me up when you mentioned Christ standing at the door and knocking. My heart is often fickle. One moment I love Christ and rely fully on Him, the next I'm shutting the door. Thanks for reminding me to try to always keep my heart open to Him. And to think - as much as you emulate Christ as a strong and loving Father - He is still infinitely greater in that role. It's mind blowing. But you are doing and have done - at least in my estimation - a great job being that not only for your children, not only for your parish, but also for those of us who need to hear this and don't have other means of receiving it. Thank you. God bless you and your family and your parish.
I have the same situation exactly. Like you say, we have expectations of what we missed, but what we have gained in our living and growing through this heartache, going through all facets, in the end, those learning experiences are way more important than if we had what we thought we missed. ✌️
Father Moses, please add forgiving our parents for their failures as some of my friends hate their parents even after their death, its so sad to hear that 😞
Thank you Father Moses. My father is the most passionate atheist I know. I was brainwashed by it for about 25 years. He placed his 'god' in drugs and my mother broke up with him when I was 18 months old due to his abuse and multiple drug addictions. I feel like I lost a huge part of my childhood from the abuse and his obsession with drugs and hatred for religion and still find it difficult to have fun with anything. But thankfully, the Lord Our God is the Greatest Father and I can't compare my sinful father to God. God has helped me through my life before I was a believer and now that I know God, He is constantly helping me grow and evolve. Every day I become more Christlike. Appreciate your wisdom brother.
Thank you for this video Fr. I have spent a while lamenting at how my father failed me in some capacity here or there in teaching his children how to live in a healthy and masculine way. Its time to get over myself and seek out this wisdom from my Heavenly Father.
I was raised by my grandparents and struggled with the same anger and frustration thank you father Moses this video and the others are amazing for young men God bless you
Lord have mercy on Father Moses, all the men and women and myself who lived with out a father in our lives, physically or emotionally. I pray that you show your mercy on all the fathers who have abandoned or will abandon their children. I pray that you show your mercy on the fathers who have neglected or will neglect their children. Father I pray that you will help us, your children, in forgiving our earthly fathers for what they could not give to their earthly children. Help us O' Lord, on accepting the departure of this ship, may we move forward with our lives and continue to manifest the love we did not receive unto others. May He guide, protect, and bless you all during this journey that He has placed us on. Thanks be to God. Amen.
Thanks for opening up. I relate to your story. Your sharing this here speaks well of your courage and will increase that of others who might struggle with similar issues.
Right when I needed this video wow. Went in Greece to visit my dad after 5 years and I had one of the worst experiences in my life with that guy. He kept bashing me for no reason. It's too hard to like him, or being around him and I don't think I'll visit him again anytime soon. 😔
Father Moses you have no clue how much I’ve been praying for a message like this! I thank you for being who you are and foremost thank God for using you as his instrument to send healing to people all over the world. The Heavens rejoice in you for being a man after God’s heart and for serving the world. May God bless you infinitely🙏🏽
The results in terms of their effects on a child are largely the same. My dad was not around for years at a time. When he was around, however, he was not there for me in an emotional way. It felt practically the same whether he was gone or not. Like Fr. Moses said, I’m now able to give my kids what I never received from my dad. They’ll never know a day when they have to wonder whether I love them or not.
Wow this video hit, it could describe me. Distand father with a controlling, very emotionally needy mother. Left me a social cripple. You hit spot on with this idea that I felt some critical part of becoming a man was missing. It became an obcession for me, kept thinking about it for hours most days well into my thirties. After he died I was able to move on somewhat. Its means alot to hear another man speak out about this. To know I'm not the only guy who felt like this.
God bless you sir. Thank you for sharing. 🙏❤️ I’m very similar. Before I found Christ I hated everyone both male & female. My plan was to spend a few years getting in good shape, then get 3 women pregnant and then get myself killed in a fight to the death somewhere. I didn’t want to win. I wanted to die. But Christ has healed the hate in my heart and now I want to live. Amen ❤️🙏
I appreciate your testimony very much. I had a similar experience in that being there for my step children healed a lot of pent up resentment I had for my own father who wasn’t really involved in my life, even though he was present. I think Christ does heal us if we allow ourselves to be there for someone in the same manner in which our family was inadequate to provide for us.
Thank you for your transparency, sir. My father left when I was 9, and it took me years to heal from the anger and bitterness I had towards him. I'm now at a point in my life where I've forgiven and released him from my heart and mind. The Heavenly Father is the only father that I need.
I nieeded that. Father sadly never embraced the masculine role Model through Depression, failure and Lack of wilstrength, Motivation etc. and i feel the same. Thank you for your testimony. Forgive, trun from destructive habits and find it with Christ and his fathher. Trank you so mach. You are the Model you needed for US.
Father Moses thank you for your confession,first time in my life I hear an Orthodox priest being so open and first time I feel so proud of my religion as a greek person I never liked it,but now after the death of my mother 7 months ago I'm driven and consumed by it and watching orthodox priests everywhere in the world on youtube . It's so moving and feels so warm in my heart to connect with all of you by the Grace of the Holy Spirit...you are a treasure for the Christian Church.Amen
Thank you for these teachings and prayers. This exactly what I want to do in life and this is exactly what I am fighting for. Single pointedly and I am very much alone in the world at this time but I know Christ is with me. I am in pain and suffering but I am not afraid. 🔥☦️☦️☦️🔥
Incredible confessional here, Father Moses. Very relatable to so many men. My parents divorced when I was young. The rest of childhood was tumultuous and ruined the family. I was resentful for over 20 years. After my son was born I set out to be a great father. After I returned to Christ, I was able to forgive my own father and reestablish a relationship. The burden has been lifted! Amen!
I just want to say thay even as a current protestant I love hearing what you teach and it genuinly reaches my heart and teaches me so much more than what any of the people I have in my life ever could.
Thank you father for this. I relate to probably all of what you spoke about. I too was missing a lot of lessons only a father can teach. Christ helped fill those missing parts of manhood I lacked. I’m Still learning
A timely posting, as I just learned today that my father has betrayed and disowned his family. A relationship I thought had been restored through the sanctification of Christ. My faith has been shaken deeply. Praying for spiritual fathers to guide me and especially my young siblings. The wounds of no father unfortunately grip another generation, 5 generations deep. Pray this cycle is broken.
Oh boy, here come the tears. Father thank you for sharing your story on fatherhood. And I just started laughing so much at the part where you were describing the two different people coming to God. I am definitely the softer one and my fiancé is similar to the opposite… very very passionate, full of fire, stubborn, strong headed, wild and self destructive in some ways. We both have history with poor fathering. I truly believe having your father there in all stages of your life is a blessing. And what a blessing it is to be able to give to others through Christ.
As a young guy going through the pitfalls of life Christ is the one keeping my head up and your words are the lifeline to the religion. You will truly never know the good you are doing and helping people like myself thank you.
Părinte, sărut-mâna! Father, I kiss your hand! Thank you for what you do for us. May we all see eachother at the Gates of Heaven, crying to the Blessed Mother of God and to all the Saints to open for us so that we can rejoice with Christ in Eternity! Amen. ☦️🇷🇴
Father, bless. This video deeply touched me. I turned 23 this year, and as I see time running fast I feel behind. I'm realising I have issues with my father, who I disrespect daily (I pray Christ to forgive me), not because he is a bad father, he is a goo man, committed to his values, but he was absent for most of my teenage years and I grew attached to my mother. I accused him of not understanding him, and not even trying, and I insult him, and then, although I feel bad about it, asking forgiveness it's hard, because it doesn't reflect my sinful feelings. Please, pray for us.
It's important to note, that the onus of being a better human being to others is so much heavier on people who did get that love when they were kids...
im so grateful i stumbled across you, you’re the first person, especially priest in all of this that i can really relate to, your videos are great man, you’re helping some of us more than you may know.
This is the story of my life and my “dads” life and how he wasn’t able to be a father to me and my sister even though I yearned for it. My childhood was rough experiencing domestic violence and the lack of sacrificial love and emotion I experienced from my “dad”. So I fully resonate with everything you’ve said. I really needed this video.
Identical story to yours. Emotionally absent father and found myself weeping in a McDonald’s when I came to terms that I never had the love and affection from my father. Like you said, the hardest part is sacrificing your childhood and not turning to selfishness like your father did. In your mind it feels like you get the short end of the stick by not having a father but then having to give yourself as a father (which is a type of martyrdom if done correctly) but in reality, what a great opportunity to crucify ourselves for God and for our children. I’ll be a father in 5 months and I’ll get to give my child the life I never got. (Ps. You made me cry, when you cried father 😂)
My dad hasn't been a part of my life since I was 10. It's affected my life significantly, and I'm still picking up the pieces of myself and the sins I've committed to become a better person and increase daily.
When my grandpa was about five years old his father, so my grandfather died and my grandpa didn't probably have a good father figure in his life. He was a workaholic, a fireman and a butcher by craft. I think he wasn't really deep in the faith except his wife, my grandma. So my father only could learn from him how to be a father. There are many wounds that have been passed on and I think there is no one to really blame. We don't choose our parents, in this case our biological fathers but I believe that God can fill that void and heal those wounds.
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So much respect for you man
It seems you can almost heal your own fatherlessness by being a father. You can heal your abuse by helping those once abused.
This is so true. I realized that instead of letting myself be a ‘victim’ that I could break the cycle and choose to build my integrity as a man to provide for others and be of service. It worked, thank God 🙏
@@TboneWTFif you’re some kind of atheist, then why is abuse even bad? I mean, how can you justify your belief that it is wrong?
That depends on the individual. Some have the capacity to heal from the negative effects of fatherlessness through fatherhood, others have no business having families until they substantively address the contradictions in their own lives, especially those who are addicted to drugs, mentally ill (e.g. schizophrenic) or developmentally disabled (e.g. autism, ADHD, etc.).
@Primordial_Synapse Could you explain why you put ADHD down, as such a hindrance that we would maybe want to hesitate to start a family?
@@dravenocklost4253 I included ADHD because it is scientifically recognized as a chronic and debilitating mental disorder by the psychiatric community that adversely affects the quality of life of those who suffer from it.
Someone prone to inordiante inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsivity is not going to have the necessary self-discipline to meet the demands of raising a child. I don't mean this in an offensive way; I'm simply stating a fact.
Anyone suffering from mental illness needs to submit to structured therapy and, if necessary, medication in order to get control over their lives first before they even think about starting a family.
My father left when I was five. My step dad was abusive. Thank you for this. Father Moses.
Thank you Father Moses. I’m 27 years old, my dad died from alcoholism and drug abuse when I was 12. He was the only parent I had left that tried. I was devastated for the longest time, but overtime, I learned from my dads situation. I vowed to myself that I would strive to be the father that’s always there for his kids, hopefully the Lord helps me fulfill this desire 🙏🏻☦️
Praying that God blesses me with a wife and kids one day so I can provide for them what wasn’t provided to me.
As a Greek orthodox Christian...I only wish the priest I came across in my life in the Greek churches motivated me like you have. I thank you!...We need more priest, even deacons in orthodoxy preach/talk from a realistic relatable perspective...it really helps us come to turns with things we struggle with instead of only approaching life battles from a biblical point of view...We need more like you in our churches.
@@dnnnnnnnnnng well, I hope this is inspired by the saints and the scriptures, because Christ spoke so much about forgiveness, embracing your Cross, and following Him. :)
Again your video speaks to me and resonates with me.
I have been an unbeliever the majority of my life but I feel God calling to me.
On your last video you advised me in the comments to pray to cut unforgiveness from my heart. Today I will do that, and today I will order a Bible.
Thank you Father Moses.
Go to your local Orthodox Church and get the individual attention you deserve!
Yes come home to the Holy Orthodox Church! I am not in it, nor am I a catechumen, but I am wholeheartedly in love with it and I cannot wait to pursue it.
Get the Orthoodx Study Bible and go to an Orthodox Church (Russian, Serbian or Greek)
@@fathermosesmcphersonmy orthodox study bible has arrived, and tomorrow I will attend my 1st service. I have been invited to attend on a Wednesday where Father John will have more 1 on 1 time for me.
I am excited and nervous. There's much wrong I've done in this life. There's much to remedy, much to repent for... and so much I have yet to offer.
THANK YOU!
@@LaxDuxmy nearest one is Greek, and my study bible has arrived today!
My great-grandfather run away, when my grandfather was a baby. My grandfather was a truck driver and only one weekend in month at home to see my father. My father divorced my mother when I was two years old. Its complicated to have a stable life when you have such a family. But I hope than one day with the help of God I will break the curse and be a real father for my children
Amen brother! I had the luck of having a stable famiily and hearing your testimony brings teara to my eyes (in the best sense) not only to be great full for my luck but also for the hope that you show. All the best luck mate! 🇪🇸
Past generations had it rough. If you find the serenity within, and a good woman, you can do it
You can be what you want Brother.
God bless you!
My father ditched my mother and I before I even turned 1. I am the man I am today, in spite of him. His absence made me into a good husband, a good father, and a good son. Thanks Be to God.
I'm having a very difficult time being resilient - as in not letting my father's failures sap the energy out of my life. I cry out to God on a daily basis, it seems I can't be strong every single day even though I should be!
Gotta forgive and let that ship sail away! You’ll feel free and energized. Pray that God will give you the strength!
My dad, similar to yourself, had serious issues with his father. i only met my grandfather once. My dad, out of sheer resilience and love, determined to be the opposite for us kids. He loved us unconditionally. Not one time did i doubt my dad's love for me. He was stern when i needed it, and merciful when i needed it. He didn't shirk his responsibilities, but suffered to uphold them. I'm thankful every day for this blessing from God, and i know your children will be too.
My father was never in my life. I was born out of wedlock and he and my mother never maintained a relationship. I met him one time and he intimated that because I existed and was in the back of his mind that he was never able to bond and have a close relationship with his other son whom he reared. (Nice of him to burden me with the guilt trip just for being alive!) I saw there was nothing for me in having a relationship with him so that was the first and last time I saw him.
I never once got a birthday card from him before or since and I don’t even know if I’ll attend his funeral or even if I’ll be invited.
I should be hurting a lot over it I guess but to be honest, it’s kind of like a having scar tissue where’s there’s no sensation so I can be magnanimous and contented with the blessings God has bestowed upon me with my own family.
Thanks for your testimony, I rarely speak of any of this to anyone so it’s relieving for me to get it off my chest.
I first met my father when I was 28. It was so strange and awkward. Now I'm 35, already have my own daughter. We communicate from time to time, but I think I don't have any special feelings towards him. Don't know whether I fulfill the commandment "honor your father" or not with such attitude... But at least I didn't reject him although I could. So maybe yes.
God bless!
I think it’s so important to share experiences with one another so someone else can relate or say me too and not feel alone but also find a way forward to heal
My dad was an atheist Marxist and passed when I was 17. I really believe God allowed this to happen, so I could appreciate the value of family and continue my dad's quest for truth... My dad was a mathematician and extremely honest, even to his own detriment. Funnily enough, following his pursuit for truth led me to question my dad's presuppositions - and that led me to Christ and his wonderful bride, the orthodox church. Now, I pray for my dad's soul. May God have mercy on us sinners 🙏☦️
What a cool story, thanks for sharing this!
Wow incredible story
Inspiring story, good luck my brother and god bless
Thanks Father Moses for this talk. I too grew up with a father in the home but he was and is an absentee dad with a major narcissistic personality. It took a good portion of my 20s to forgive him and realize that he did give me a gift and that is knowing what not to do when it comes time for my own family.
Father i can relate 100% to this, i grew up while my father was in another country, my mom working to support, i have almost no friends because they od or they are still strugling and i almost died 2 times....last year i had an epileptic seizure because of substances and when i went home i read the phrase of our Christ "“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” It was from a New Teastament that one of my friends who had died gave it to me, while i was an atheist.that moment i felt that someone really loved me truly and unconditionaly...i started crying alone in my house and asking for forgiveness, after 20 years of darkness and since then i feel like my life has changed upside down, but the truly good way. God bless you Father, greetings from Greece
Δοξα τω Θεω
I have not begun seeing the video yet, but this day I felt like my father could have done something more for me and defend me from my mother’s rage, since the father is the head of the home, but he does not believe in this and lets the wife be the “boss”.
I do much for my family and yet I got no recognition of what I did, and in a split moment of rage all remembrance of what I do for them goes out the window…
I feel terrible, and now this video pops up in my feed.
I know Jesus Christ is Lord and I must honor my father and mother, and seeing this video popping up just in this exact moment is God trying to speak to me through this pastor.
I do not know much about him, but God is surely using this video for me right now.
I write this as testimony so others can edify their faiths in Christ Jesus.
May the Father settle down this rage within me and keep my eyes on the Lord and forgive them, in Jesus name.
The two sides of it.... When the Voice of the Mother Does not matter, or when the strength of the father does not matter... We Pray for Miracles everyday. You've got to believe it. My Father just had the first man to man talk with me during my entire life and the old sport broke into tears over how wrong he had raised me with so much hate and violence... He visited a Church and he said God spoke to him about his wrongdoings. Pray so that this miracle may come to you too!
My situation could be described exactly with the first 3 lines of your text.
I’ve been praying for this exact video Fr 😭😭😭
Learning to pray was/is very difficult for me because I could never talk to my Dad about anything. As a result I just bottled up my feelings, got horribly mentally ill, and coped with self-harming practices. It’s getting better, but for a few weeks I just had to cry to God after my prayers. I would cry for a long time. God listened and helped me like He promised.
My father was abusive on many levels, he beat me pretty severely, but the worst part was he convinced me I was unworthy of love. that's been my biggest stumbling point with God, how can God love me when my own father didn't? pray for me father.
You probably already know this but every human is imperfect including your dad and he doesn't have the final say on anything including anything to do with you only God does and God hasn't taken you from the earth he still keeps here because he loves you and he wants you to love him and he still wants that opportunity
So remember if you're still breathing God loves you and he wants you here
You’re not alone brother, but you can write your own book. Be what he wasn’t and let go.
@@TheMichael5833 Remember this: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
So sorry to hear of your experience with your father. God loves each one of us unconditionally. Your father was not a good human being but God loves you and knows every hair on your head. Please hold on to Christ, ask God to forgive your father and let go of the past. I pray that you will find a wonderful spouse and be the best God driven parent you can be for your children- sacrificial, loving and a wonderful example for them to look up to and follow. May God bless you. Praying for you🙏☦️
Thank you father Moses . I am RC but adore your preachingings. I love my father very much , he taught me many moral standards , but at the same time as a young child he and my mother were violent . He drank often . Around 12 they divorced , for whatever reason at the time not sure if it was gods grace or what but my only concern was for the fighting to stop so I was happy they split up. At least that’s what I thought . I’m 30 now and have recently come back to the church , and I wonder how different my teenage and young 20s would have been had I been able to run to Christ . I spent those years doing drugs , dropping out, joining graffiti gangs in a big city , as I grew up I searched for meaning healthier places but still , hole wasn’t filling . My behavior truly wasn’t growing . I didn’t truly feel a man.
With Christ now , with Mary , I feel all that stuff is OK . As you are saying , I believe this all will make me a very great person in sharing his word , and really trying to do my best to be in his image . There’s nooo reason murking in the mud .
I’m amazed to see what man Christ makes of me.
I do love my father very much for the record , he’s changed and repented . My mother didn’t mean anything wrong either . It’s tough being human and I get it , it’s great having a good relationship now
And if anyone reads this, my ptsd from street fights I got in , physical anxiety symptoms I’d struggle witn like cold sweating and shaking , poor blood circulation, IBS,
It’s all come down 90% through Christ . Therapy , medication, meditating , it couldn’t address this the same way !
My father hospitalised me when i was 16, i havent let him in my home for 5 years. It brings me alot of pain, hopefully the Lord aids me in this trouble
I’ve had a lot of these moments of almost feeling imposter syndrome for being able to have made it this far in life. I am still so far from where I need to be as a man, but every moment, every second that I turn to Christ, the meaning in life, the ability to be someone who others need, to become the person I needed, is there. Thank you for sharing Father Moses and God Bless you.
I'm over here crying like a baby, thank you for this Father. God bless! Christ is risen!
You are a great man, God bless.
My father was sadly not in my life growing up much, and died when I was 10. I always felt this terrible hole in my heart and I knew that it's because of his absence. This video, and the other one that is more recent, are God sends, because it's the answers for what I've been looking for! Godbless father!
Thanks. God bless you Father Moses ❤🙏🏾 I never had a dad but I have forgiven him years ago and now, he even might become Christian, pray for him pls.🙏🏾🤍
I found Christ in the darkness, and in his loving silence, he spurred me towards the light. Im not at the source, but maybe by his mercy, i may touch its edge one day. God bless you Fr. Moses.
I absolutely love this message.
I have a (Earthly) father who I don’t think was really that much of one from about the age of 13/14 onward.
Despite everything that has happened, I’ve always said that I was thankful (as much as I was bitter) for my Dad because he showed me exactly the things that I would never allow myself to become, God Willing.
I really sincerely hope that I can be a brilliant Dad one day, and everybody reading this comment as well, so I can give what I was never given.
God bless you
Every night I pray and I thank God for the time that I get to spend with my family
Father, your video, as always, just hits the spot. As a Roman Catholic heavily inquiring into Orthodoxy, these videos just tip the scale, even if bit by bit. I've been tired of all of this, asking God for guidance on this issue of mine, watching your videos, debates and whatnot. Honestly it made a mess inside my head but ever since I woke up this morning, I feel like all of this is coming to an end. Whatever happens I just wanted to thank you, Father, because your videos are just real and it seems like you truly consider your viewers as your spiritual children, wishing the best for them, giving advice, caring like a father. I really wanted to say this for quite some time now, so once again, thank you Father. God bless!
Father Moses, it's a blessing to have come through your channel. I can completely relate to all that you said. You give hope to so many of us. Recently married. Hopefully a dad soon. Lots of love and prayers.
Thank you for this video, Father Moses. I have very similar father wounds to you, and hearing your story and how Christ has emboldened you as a father was deeply moving.
My dad was largely absent while growing up, addicted to lust and selfish pleasures. My parents got divorced when I was very young as a result. I know that his father was very similar when he was young, so it can easily be a repeating cycle of wounded boys becoming wounded men. Not having a father emotionally present while growing up leaves lasting wounds on a young boy that affect him for life. Wounds that only Christ can heal in order to break the chain of absentee fathers.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I don't normally comment on videos. But I want to say thank you for sharing this. My parents divorced when I was 7 and I never really saw my dad much after that. He was verbally and physically abusive to my family. Im 20 now and have been dealing with that same mental warfare you are explaining and Im thankful that I am not alone. My main goal in life is to be the father I never had.
That part about not being able to relate to how your kids feel made me shed a tear with you. God bless you, Fr. Moses. Thank you.
Thank you father. This one was deep. Like many other men here, my father was absent from my life and then died when I was 20. I only have a handful of memories with him, but I forgive him completely and pray for his soul. I am a young married man with a son of my own now. Trying my best to provide the kind of love and life they deserve. It’s tough but it’s the most meaningful endeavor I could imagine.
I'm 32 years old, and you just spoke to me down to the teeth. Only thing is that i pray I will be able to have those tears of joy when, God willing, I have my children. Thank you for sharing such video, to YHWH be all the glory.
There is absolutely no one who just captures my exact experience like this. It’s almost like he is narrating my life path. Recently learned that I can get some of my needs met from older role models. Please pray for me so that I see God as the perfect key for my lock representing an emotionally absent father.
My father choose his death, lost him at 4.
I will do absolutely everything in my power to be nothing like my father, but to humbly surprass him on every level. I WILL find a way to succeed. God Willing.
We can live ways that they couldn't ...
You are an amazing father and thank you so much Father Moses you are truly an inspiration.Christ has Risen ☦️💖
Indeed He is Risen!
Thank you for the wisdom today. Much of our generation is struggling to be a man and father without having the model for what that looks like. God bless 🙏🏻☦️
This was very relatable. Thank you for sharing. The hurt may never go away, but we can always strive to do better for the children we bring into this world.
I appreciate these videos so much. Really helps me work through some of the issues I grew up with.
Thank you Father Moses, I personally don't believe in God but you're a very straightforward person and your advice is 100% true and helpful
Father Moses - you are such a beautiful light to us. So real and direct. Thank you brother.
Thank you father Moses for being emotionally open and authentic. It takes a certain level of courage, maturity and humility to be able to do so. It also makes the messages more human and relatable. God bless.
Thank You Father Moses.
What an astounding message of hope, I have had similar struggles as you have described and I pray that the end result may be similar in my life as well.
Thank you for your honesty. I too had a similar experience. Your words are powerful here. Praise Jesus
Glory to God. ☦️
In same boat with fatherlessness (in that exact way, absent father)
Thanks to father Moses for this!
All has been said here!
As many others have said, incredibly relatable. I'll spare the story, but I was right there with ya during the video. Ya choked me up when you mentioned Christ standing at the door and knocking. My heart is often fickle. One moment I love Christ and rely fully on Him, the next I'm shutting the door. Thanks for reminding me to try to always keep my heart open to Him.
And to think - as much as you emulate Christ as a strong and loving Father - He is still infinitely greater in that role. It's mind blowing. But you are doing and have done - at least in my estimation - a great job being that not only for your children, not only for your parish, but also for those of us who need to hear this and don't have other means of receiving it. Thank you. God bless you and your family and your parish.
I have the same situation exactly. Like you say, we have expectations of what we missed, but what we have gained in our living and growing through this heartache, going through all facets, in the end, those learning experiences are way more important than if we had what we thought we missed. ✌️
We love you father. Listening to you from Caucasus Georgia 🇬🇪
Father Moses, please add forgiving our parents for their failures as some of my friends hate their parents even after their death, its so sad to hear that 😞
Father Moses giving us the talks our fathers should have had.
Never knew it could rain indoors
Rain is typically stopped by a ceiling, not a door.
Thank you Father Moses. My father is the most passionate atheist I know. I was brainwashed by it for about 25 years. He placed his 'god' in drugs and my mother broke up with him when I was 18 months old due to his abuse and multiple drug addictions. I feel like I lost a huge part of my childhood from the abuse and his obsession with drugs and hatred for religion and still find it difficult to have fun with anything. But thankfully, the Lord Our God is the Greatest Father and I can't compare my sinful father to God. God has helped me through my life before I was a believer and now that I know God, He is constantly helping me grow and evolve. Every day I become more Christlike. Appreciate your wisdom brother.
Thank you for this video Fr.
I have spent a while lamenting at how my father failed me in some capacity here or there in teaching his children how to live in a healthy and masculine way. Its time to get over myself and seek out this wisdom from my Heavenly Father.
I was raised by my grandparents and struggled with the same anger and frustration thank you father Moses this video and the others are amazing for young men God bless you
That’s the thing is, we live in a lost time. To our ancestors, it would be unimaginable and horrible that a father doesn’t love a child sincerely.
Lord have mercy on Father Moses, all the men and women and myself who lived with out a father in our lives, physically or emotionally.
I pray that you show your mercy on all the fathers who have abandoned or will abandon their children.
I pray that you show your mercy on the fathers who have neglected or will neglect their children.
Father I pray that you will help us, your children, in forgiving our earthly fathers for what they could not give to their earthly children.
Help us O' Lord, on accepting the departure of this ship, may we move forward with our lives and continue to manifest the love we did not receive unto others.
May He guide, protect, and bless you all during this journey that He has placed us on.
Thanks be to God.
Amen.
Thanks for opening up. I relate to your story. Your sharing this here speaks well of your courage and will increase that of others who might struggle with similar issues.
Right when I needed this video wow. Went in Greece to visit my dad after 5 years and I had one of the worst experiences in my life with that guy. He kept bashing me for no reason. It's too hard to like him, or being around him and I don't think I'll visit him again anytime soon. 😔
Father Moses you have no clue how much I’ve been praying for a message like this! I thank you for being who you are and foremost thank God for using you as his instrument to send healing to people all over the world. The Heavens rejoice in you for being a man after God’s heart and for serving the world. May God bless you infinitely🙏🏽
Father thank you for mentioning that emotionally absent fathers can be just as harmful and painful as physically absent fathers.
The results in terms of their effects on a child are largely the same. My dad was not around for years at a time. When he was around, however, he was not there for me in an emotional way. It felt practically the same whether he was gone or not. Like Fr. Moses said, I’m now able to give my kids what I never received from my dad. They’ll never know a day when they have to wonder whether I love them or not.
My dad definitely needs God and thanks for telling us to let it go and fill that void with God
Thank you for being vulnerable Fr.Moses this really struck a chord with me. Shed a tear myself.
I relate so so much. Wow. Thank you for putting this out. God bless. Yes, turn around, turn away from the void, and look to God the Father of Love.
Wow this video hit, it could describe me. Distand father with a controlling, very emotionally needy mother. Left me a social cripple.
You hit spot on with this idea that I felt some critical part of becoming a man was missing.
It became an obcession for me, kept thinking about it for hours most days well into my thirties. After he died I was able to move on somewhat.
Its means alot to hear another man speak out about this. To know I'm not the only guy who felt like this.
God bless you sir. Thank you for sharing. 🙏❤️
I’m very similar. Before I found Christ I hated everyone both male & female. My plan was to spend a few years getting in good shape, then get 3 women pregnant and then get myself killed in a fight to the death somewhere. I didn’t want to win. I wanted to die.
But Christ has healed the hate in my heart and now I want to live. Amen ❤️🙏
I appreciate your testimony very much. I had a similar experience in that being there for my step children healed a lot of pent up resentment I had for my own father who wasn’t really involved in my life, even though he was present. I think Christ does heal us if we allow ourselves to be there for someone in the same manner in which our family was inadequate to provide for us.
Thank you for your transparency, sir. My father left when I was 9, and it took me years to heal from the anger and bitterness I had towards him. I'm now at a point in my life where I've forgiven and released him from my heart and mind. The Heavenly Father is the only father that I need.
I nieeded that. Father sadly never embraced the masculine role Model through Depression, failure and Lack of wilstrength, Motivation etc. and i feel the same. Thank you for your testimony. Forgive, trun from destructive habits and find it with Christ and his fathher. Trank you so mach. You are the Model you needed for US.
God bless father, thank you
Father Moses thank you for your confession,first time in my life I hear an Orthodox priest being so open and first time I feel so proud of my religion as a greek person I never liked it,but now after the death of my mother 7 months ago I'm driven and consumed by it and watching orthodox priests everywhere in the world on youtube . It's so moving and feels so warm in my heart to connect with all of you by the Grace of the Holy Spirit...you are a treasure for the Christian Church.Amen
I am so sorry because of your mother my condolences.God bless you, from your brothers from the north 🇷🇸☦️🇬🇷
@@og3a339 thank you brother
Thank you for these teachings and prayers. This exactly what I want to do in life and this is exactly what I am fighting for. Single pointedly and I am very much alone in the world at this time but I know Christ is with me. I am in pain and suffering but I am not afraid. 🔥☦️☦️☦️🔥
Today (9/14) marks 1 year since my father reposed. May his memory be eternal. I love you Pop!
Incredible confessional here, Father Moses. Very relatable to so many men.
My parents divorced when I was young. The rest of childhood was tumultuous and ruined the family. I was resentful for over 20 years. After my son was born I set out to be a great father.
After I returned to Christ, I was able to forgive my own father and reestablish a relationship. The burden has been lifted! Amen!
I just want to say thay even as a current protestant I love hearing what you teach and it genuinly reaches my heart and teaches me so much more than what any of the people I have in my life ever could.
I’m glad I clicked on this video , the Lord is answering me through you right now , been having these thoughts lately about being fatherless ‼️💙
Thank you father for this. I relate to probably all of what you spoke about. I too was missing a lot of lessons only a father can teach. Christ helped fill those missing parts of manhood I lacked. I’m Still learning
A timely posting, as I just learned today that my father has betrayed and disowned his family. A relationship I thought had been restored through the sanctification of Christ. My faith has been shaken deeply. Praying for spiritual fathers to guide me and especially my young siblings. The wounds of no father unfortunately grip another generation, 5 generations deep. Pray this cycle is broken.
Praying for you brother. May God bless you and your family. Stay strong in your faith.🙏☦️
Oh boy, here come the tears. Father thank you for sharing your story on fatherhood. And I just started laughing so much at the part where you were describing the two different people coming to God. I am definitely the softer one and my fiancé is similar to the opposite… very very passionate, full of fire, stubborn, strong headed, wild and self destructive in some ways. We both have history with poor fathering. I truly believe having your father there in all stages of your life is a blessing. And what a blessing it is to be able to give to others through Christ.
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you Father Moses. I can be the father I wished I would have had because Christ Jesus showed me the way.
As a young guy going through the pitfalls of life Christ is the one keeping my head up and your words are the lifeline to the religion. You will truly never know the good you are doing and helping people like myself thank you.
god bless you father moses u are amazing
Părinte, sărut-mâna! Father, I kiss your hand! Thank you for what you do for us. May we all see eachother at the Gates of Heaven, crying to the Blessed Mother of God and to all the Saints to open for us so that we can rejoice with Christ in Eternity! Amen. ☦️🇷🇴
THOSE TEARS I LOVE TO SEE. I LOVE TO SEE YOUR PASSION. ITS POSITIVELY CONTAGIOUS
Father, bless. This video deeply touched me. I turned 23 this year, and as I see time running fast I feel behind. I'm realising I have issues with my father, who I disrespect daily (I pray Christ to forgive me), not because he is a bad father, he is a goo man, committed to his values, but he was absent for most of my teenage years and I grew attached to my mother. I accused him of not understanding him, and not even trying, and I insult him, and then, although I feel bad about it, asking forgiveness it's hard, because it doesn't reflect my sinful feelings.
Please, pray for us.
You progres and you evolve so much and the help came from the Lord, Amen🙏
It's important to note, that the onus of being a better human being to others is so much heavier on people who did get that love when they were kids...
im so grateful i stumbled across you, you’re the first person, especially priest in all of this that i can really relate to, your videos are great man, you’re helping some of us more than you may know.
This is the story of my life and my “dads” life and how he wasn’t able to be a father to me and my sister even though I yearned for it. My childhood was rough experiencing domestic violence and the lack of sacrificial love and emotion I experienced from my “dad”. So I fully resonate with everything you’ve said. I really needed this video.
Thank you for this reflection, father Moses. Really hits home here. Your blessing.
Father moses i really appreciate this video God bless you and may he thank you for all the people who can see this and relate to it.
What a perfectly timed video man. It's crazy.
Identical story to yours. Emotionally absent father and found myself weeping in a McDonald’s when I came to terms that I never had the love and affection from my father. Like you said, the hardest part is sacrificing your childhood and not turning to selfishness like your father did. In your mind it feels like you get the short end of the stick by not having a father but then having to give yourself as a father (which is a type of martyrdom if done correctly) but in reality, what a great opportunity to crucify ourselves for God and for our children. I’ll be a father in 5 months and I’ll get to give my child the life I never got. (Ps. You made me cry, when you cried father 😂)
May God strengthen you little brother!
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen. God Bless you father.
My dad hasn't been a part of my life since I was 10. It's affected my life significantly, and I'm still picking up the pieces of myself and the sins I've committed to become a better person and increase daily.
When my grandpa was about five years old his father, so my grandfather died and my grandpa didn't probably have a good father figure in his life. He was a workaholic, a fireman and a butcher by craft. I think he wasn't really deep in the faith except his wife, my grandma. So my father only could learn from him how to be a father. There are many wounds that have been passed on and I think there is no one to really blame. We don't choose our parents, in this case our biological fathers but I believe that God can fill that void and heal those wounds.
It is an unique pain. one that has not lessened. pray for me
Right on time Father. Thank you so much for this. You are a great teacher. Respectful, authentic and real.