Coracle Trust E-Reflections
Lent: A Father and a Future
Thursday 7 April 2011
They grew up without a good man's love, without a father's understanding and affirmation. So they always hunger for it, and they search for it from teachers, coaches and ministers. Richard Rohr, Wild man to wise man
Photography by Simon Hodge
The Father-hunger
Ours has been called “the fatherless generation”. For some that father-hunger is deep and devastating. Long ago we were robbed of that capacity to trust because somebody significant failed to be trustworthy. Images of a Father God summon up memories too painful for words. Images of our past are projected on to the screen of our imagination. God feels distant. We dare not let such a Father God come close.
My Jesus-like Father
We do not know Father. But then, nobody does, really. "No-one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father." Jesus introduces us to that Father who is unlike any father we have known – a Jesus-like Father. If Jesus, had been my father what would life have been like? Just imagine. If God is a Jesus-like Father, what might my future be like? Just imagine. Peter Neilson (Trustee)
