Comments on: Praying to Your Heavenly Father: Do You Have Daddy Issues?

By: E

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:36:08 +0000

I definitely have (had?) Daddy issues. That totally warped the way I related to men in general. Since becoming a Christian, I have really embraced God as my father figure…He is a ‘father to the fatherless’ after all. There have been trying times where my prayers have felt like I am a little girl curling up in a loving Father’s lap and pouring out my heart and soul. This has completely changed the way I relate to men in my life in general. I mean, I still stumble sometimes, but these days i have much healthier relationships with the opposite sex. And, I am working on forgiving my earthly father for his failures, and am content on building whatever sort of relationship is possible with him, because I have everything I need from a Father figure in my Heavenly Father.

By: J

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 18:26:13 +0000

In reply to Mike S.. All true. Thanks, Mike.

By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:54:29 +0000

Seems that we have a built-in, “hardwired” understanding of what a father should be, or else we would not be so viscerally disappointed and hurt by our human father’s failures or perceived failures. This points us to the true father, not just our limited earthly father. Men often experience the same reaction to their fathers, so it is not a uniquely female problem, of course. The same conflict can apply to “brothers and sisters” and how the Bible says we are to treat them in Christ.

By: Nick Peters

Nick Peters — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:43:48 +0000

J. Some readers might be interested in a book on this called “The Father’s Heart.”