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