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A Tribute to Our Father

Father

“Our Father” begins the Lord’s Prayer.

Surely it is a son’s call, at once comforting, yet awe-laced and respect-tinged, that touches a deep nerve in our soul—a nerve so basic as to send signals that direct our behavior in a primal way.

From our Father comes our very being: our boundaries, our sexuality, our instinct to protect, our need to provide, our courage to defend, our faithfulness, our fidelity, our restraint, our mercy, our justice and our humility. From our Father comes our identity.

All these characteristics become magnified at the loss of our earthly father. In him we have received the attempt to form such traits in our character. In him we have learned that only our heavenly Father is the true measure of character.

So, at the death of our father, this connective tissue is severed. We bleed from flesh cut through. Pain overwhelms all prudence and care. Tears fall for that which can never be restored.

But also we know, more keenly than before, that a cycle has finished and begun again, upon hearing our own children cry out, “Daddy”.

And in our suffering we cry out, as the Son taught us, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.”

Steven Brallier
November, 2007