A father’s greatest joy is to bless his children. However, for too many the love of a parent is not a known or shared experience. Take Patrick, for example: before he arrived at the ELI Children’s Home, he was without parents because his father ended his mother’s life in a violent rage and then disappeared. Grief choked his sense of value until he tried to find refuge in a dense forest where the loneliness pierced his heart even more than the night cold. Leah is another example: she barely made it out of a fire her father started that killed her mother. She developed scars on her skin from the burns, but they could not compare with the fear her memory struggled to erase. For so many, life is difficult, and it’s quite possible you have also experienced brokenness and unimaginable loss—but our stories do not have to end there. Your heavenly Father knows and cares.
