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Musings: Your Father

One of my morning readings yesterday carried that title: Your Father.  And although it was referring to God as Father, it made me instinctively think of my own father.  His name was Alfred, but everyone called him Alf.  He died 9 June 1997.

I know that unfortunately there are many people who do not have a good relationship with their father.  The sad statistics on child abuse the world over reflect this situation.  And I have read that these statistics do not give a true picture of the enormity of this problem because much child abuse goes undetected or unreported.

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Poetry: Awakening to the World

These are some poems that I wrote as I became aware of the world around me.  They were written during the period 1979 – 1981.  There were many things changing in my life at that time, the most important being an emerging of my heart and soul from a very dark place.  Up until that moment in time I had lived a very selfish, egotistical life and noticed very little outside my own personal desires. 

As things changed, it was as though a heavy mist slowly rolled back and I was able to see that I was not the . . . → Read More: Poetry: Awakening to the World