My perception of God was coloured by my relationship with my father
Does Your Perception of God Need to Change?
Sometimes perceptions have to change in order to move on
“When you coming home, dad?” “I don’t know when”
But we’ll get together then
You know we’ll have a good time then” — Harry Chapin
Cat’s in the Cradle, could have been autobiographical. “When you coming home, dad?” was a question often thought … but never asked.
My perception of God had been based on the relationship I had with my father and his father … but this perception changed instantly … when I became a father!
Here’s how it happened.
A man of his time
Dad was never at home. Well he was … but his outside interests took precedent.
There were church meetings, more church meetings, Chamber of Commerce meetings and more church meetings. It may have been a generational thing, mixed with a Northern Irish upbringing.
Dad was a man of his time.
Consequently my father and I weren’t close.
