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November 4, 2009 1 Comment

Fathers Form Us

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Fathers form us.Our fathers may have launched us into adulthood healthy, strong and confident having poured into us words of truth, love and life and surrounded us with the safety of strength and sensitivity.Or perhaps our fathers left us emotionally shredded, grasping for something to staunch the wounds as we limped into the world to find our way.Even if a father leaves the family, his children are formed by the hole that remains and by the future father figures who may seek to fill that hole.Randy Carlson, in his 1992 book Father Memories, wrote, “Picture fathers all around the world carving their initials into their family trees. Like a carving in the trunk of an oak, as time passes the impressions fathers make on their children grow deeper and wider.”

That’s how I began a post over at HighCallingBlogs (HCB) today.Highlighting two writers in the HCB network, I was able to share stories of fathers and the impact they’ve made.If you have time, I invite you to pop over and leave a thought or two on fathers, the impact your father has had on your life, or even a small father-memory of your own.READ MORE…Speaking of parents, there’s a new post up at NotSoFastBook.com about the pressure of “Push Parenting.”

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Filed Under: children, family, parenting, self-discovery Tagged With: father memories, fatherhood, fathers

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  1. Kelly Langner Sauer says

    November 4, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    You look like your father. What a gift…

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