This Father's Day, about 18.2 million children in the U.S. will wake up without a father in the home — and with adults included, that number doubles. If you're spending today without a father to celebrate, you are not alone. 🤍
By six, my parents had separated. The memory that still cuts deepest: the Christmases my father promised to come and never did, my brother and I asleep on the sofa, waiting for footsteps that never came.
It took years before I understood — he couldn't give me what he didn't have. His absence left "holes in my soul." But forgiveness became the key that let the real me emerge, and eventually I saw him with compassion. He missed the mark in so many ways, but it wasn't personal. He was carrying his own pain.
Father's Day can be a day to celebrate ourselves — bumps, bruises and all — and to forgive, so we can be set free.
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