Category: Father
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In Heaven
Who is in the heavens? What we have here is a definite article (who is) followed by a preposition (in) followed by another definite article (the) Ho En Tois (who is in the) Ourenois (heavens) If you sound out how it looks, it’s almost poetry. We can shorten it to Our Father in Heaven. We…
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Father
The second word of the Lord’s prayer is Father. Oh what a word! It is wrought with human potential for beauty and love and tenderness and for some it is wrought with fear, neglect, absence. But ultimately the noun is most prone to our projection. I will dive in further in a moment, but I…
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I Have Not Forgotten
In some ways, it was fitting that I began this journey to Israel on Father’s Day. Today is 2 years to the day that my dad died. There are so many things I would have loved to show him. But what’s more, there are so many people I wish could have met him. I wish…
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Day 6: A Talk With My Father We Never Had (Audio Reading)
The only time we ever talked about love Was the month following my heartbreak Around Thanksgiving of my 24th year. I did not think I could keep going quietly, honestly And you did not have much advice to give. In the wake of that winter you visited once And I had very little left to…
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Tony
My dad Anthony (Tony) Louis Passaro Jr. was born on August 23, 1950 over a month premature. He was the only child of my grandmother Mary and grandfather Anthony L Passaro Sr. My grandma had several prior miscarriages before the birth of her only child. From the little I know of his birth, I know…
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My Father, the Hero
About 6 years ago, at Pennington Assembly of God, members of the staff recorded videos of our fathers listening to us answering questions about what it was like to be raised and loved by our dads and the instances in which we as sons did things that were unbecoming of the fearfully wonderful men we…
The Reconstructed 