How was your Father’s Day this past Sunday?  Was it enjoyable or painful?  If it was painful, then this Podcast is a must for you to listen to as I help you turn to the best Father there is.  Be blessed.

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Welcome friends to my Podcast Giving You a Fresh Start After Traum!  I have a special message for you today that will bring you hope, love and peace.  So let me get started.

Holidays can be hard especially if there is dysfunction in your family and celebrating Father’s Day is one of those Holidays that can be difficult.  I often joked and said that both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day was started by “Hallmark.”  But after doing some digging this is what I found.

Father’s Day originated in the United States in the early 20th century, largely inspired by the establishment of Mother’s Day. The primary founder was Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, who sought to honor her widowed, Civil War-veteran father who single-handedly raised her and her five siblings.  (Source: Google)

It’s great to honor the fathers in our life that mean much to us and have done a great deal for us and have enhanced our lives.  But sometimes this Holiday can be painful.  How?

Well perhaps you fall into one of these categories.

1. You had a great relationship with your father, but he has passed.
2. You don’t have a good relationship (never mind great) with your father and he is still alive.
3. Your father walked away from his family.
4. Your father was a good man but because of his job he was rarely around.
5. Your father is still in your life but only from the sense of physically being there. He doesn’t necessarily care for you like a father should.
6. Your father is or was mean, abusive and full of anger.

Of course, there is the scenario that you have a great relationship with your father, and he is still in your life.  That is the best of the best.

Until 9 years ago my dad was in my life, but it was difficult.  I would struggle going to Hallmark every year to find a Father’s Day Card because they all said how wonderful a dad, they are.  Sadly, I could not say my dad was wonderful … to me at least.  He was verbally abusive, cursed much in my life and wasn’t supportive of me by helping move into adulthood.  Even though he was physically present, that’s where it ended. He definitely fed and clothed me and put a roof over my head but emotionally he was vacant.

I Have Forgiven

With all that being said, I have forgiven him and have had a relationship with him until his passing.  I was even able to be his caregiver in the last 5 or so years of his life … even as he kept verbally abusing me.  How?  My Heavenly Father is a good Father and healed much in my life and gave me His Grace to be able to help my Father.  Was it always easy?  Absolutely not.  But it did help me grow and bring more and more healing to my emotions.

When we don’t have a good relationship with our earthly father, it is so important to know that we have a Father in Heaven that adores us, cares for us, protects us, provides for us and even disciplines us when needed.

But what can interfere with walking in that truth about a Heavenly Father is that we transfer our earthly father onto God.  Our earthly father is to somewhat be a representation of our Heavenly Father.  He’s to guide us to our Heavenly Father and when he doesn’t, he has not done his job.

I spent years thinking that God was authoritative, mean, harsh, scary, controlling, and at any minute He would zap me into line.  I felt like He was never pleased with me and that I had to strive to “be a good girl.”

I’m sure my dad was glad when I was that “good girl” but never expressed that.  But boy o boy would he voice his harshness when I did something wrong … even if I was trying to do something innocent and new and it didn’t work out.

Friends, can you somehow relate to what I experienced?

If you have, I hope you are able to turn to your Heavenly Father and hold onto Him.  You may not know Him, but I promise you He knows you.

• He formed you in your mother’s womb.
• He knows everything there is to know about you.
• He understands your every thought even before it enters your mind.
• He can read your heart like an open book.
• He knows every step you will take even before you begin.
• Lovingly, He goes into your future to prepare the way and then even in His kindness follows you behind to protect you from your past.
• He places His hand of Love upon you and gives you blessings.
• His hand guides you and gives you power, strength and courage.
• He formed every bone in your body from nothing to something.
• The number of your days are already planned out as there is a book in heaven all about you.
• His desires for you are more than the grains of sand.
• He has numbered the hairs on your head so if hair number 1,443 falls out, He will know it.

No human could live up to all the Father in heaven is, but our earthly fathers are to help guide us to the Father in Heaven.  If you don’t know Him, it’s not hard.  (Message me if you would like to know).  He would love to have a relationship with you and help you along in life.

Don’t let the sadness of your relationship with your earthly father to pull you down and hinder you from knowing the ultimate of Fathers.

Your Spiritual Life & Health Coach … believing in you!

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