The reader, whatever their background will rejoice in the character and work of God the Father. “A fatherless child possesses no wound that our heavenly Father has not promised to mend.” p. Without providing a veneer of simplistic answers, Blair explores the work of God in the life of the fatherless–and in the lives of all adopted by Heaven. This preemptive rage towards him accompanied me into adulthood like an overbearing chaperone, always around to place restrictions on any fleeting moments of happiness I might experience with the cruel reminder that paternal abandonment cast a deep shadow over my entire being. Blair includes a chapter written by Shai, “Becoming the Dad I never had.” In it, he writes of his anger toward his own absent father: As she and her husband, Shai were married, they both had to learn new relationships and new ways of engaging. 34īlair details that the adult who experienced fatherlessness can continue to respond with patterns that reflect the lack. I was experiencing the burden of something I was too young to name, the lack of something I was too alone to understand.I needed my father, and he was not there. It is rarely talked about but extremely important.
But God! the Father of all comfort, was drawing her into the light of His kingdom.įatherlessness is the elephant in the room. Examined from theological, sociological, and personal angles, the lack of a father in her home cast a shadow on every aspect of Blair’s life as a child and as an adult. You can find it on Amazon or 10ofThose.īlair Linne has written a beautifully theological memoir detailing the challenges of growing up fatherless. Finding My Father: How the Gospel Heals the Pain of Fatherlessness by Blair Linne is the best book I read in 2021. This book sings, offering the spitting rhythm of the guttural realities of brokenness, the rhyme’s pause that leaves the listener-reader breathless, and the drawn-out tones of a lullaby pouring from a full heart wrapped in the Heavenly Father’s overflowing love.
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