An elderly man is petting his large, black lab while professing a great love
Can you see it? His large hand on the back of the lovely beast
Stroking and repeating gentle words
Words with power infused
I’m sorry I left you for so many hours sweetie
Daddy won’t leave you like that again
Daddy is here now
I love you
That man is my birth father
This moment is the 3rd occasion I am in his company and it all began 4 months earlier when I turned 50
Somehow through the Spirit, I knew he was speaking to me, my little girl inside
The one he’d abandoned a half century before
The dog was a male
and yet he kept referring to him as a her
Another tell-tale sign that there was more, much more happening right beneath the surface
of this most ordinary of moments
I left the next day and repeated this conversation inside my heart dozens of times
I now know for certain that I have a Daddy, who I’ve decided to call Padre
who cannot leave me, cannot not love and adore me
For His nature is that of sacrifice
of Peace
and of Divine Love
I call Him Jesus the Messiah
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