Don't miss the opportunity this Father's Day to tell your father how much you love him and appreciate him. Or, if he's gone, as my father is, at least give a prayer of thanks to God that you had the dad you did.
As a father of four and a father-in-law of two more, I feel my role as a father much more viscerally than ever before. So what IS a father? I've given that some thought of late.
Perhaps what we miss -- perhaps what is most bothersome -- about fatherlessness and all of its consequences are that it perpetuates a lie about who God is.