Forgiving your father
Forgiving your father is not excusing him, forgetting, or pretending you are safe. It is laying down a debt before the Father who forgave you first, often long before it is felt.
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Articles about forgiving, being forgiven, and what that does and does not mean.
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God as Father when your own father failed
For readers whose father was absent, harsh, or abusive. God is the original, not the copy; you can name what happened honestly, and you are under no pressure to reconcile with someone unsafe.
The Father who runs
Luke 15 walked slowly: the leaving, the pig pen, the rehearsed speech, and a father who runs down the road before his son can finish a sentence.
When you chose wrong
The decision you cannot undo is not the end of your story with God. David and Peter both chose wrong, and what came after shows how the Father handles it.