One of the families was the McMurray family-John McMurray co-authored this book with you-and you spent about four years with them. To supplement that, or to try to fit together the pieces that were missing in your life, you connected with a handful of mentors over your adult life. I want to welcome you back, Don.ĭennis: Don, you grew up in a home without a father. We ran across a book and invited the author of that book, Don Miller, to join us.

I had some of those same thoughts as I listened to why government has put together, and all of the things government is trying to patch, and prevent, and protect, and keep wired together all because of the family breakdown-and a good part of them because dads are not dads and fathers to their children. Then, you have to look at Malachi, Chapter 4, where God says, “The hearts of the fathers are going to be turned back to their sons lest I come and smite the land with a curse.” It leaves you scratching your head and saying, “Are we reaping the bitter fruit of dads who have left their assignment, left their post, and this is what we’ve got?”ĭennis: Bob, I was in a briefing at the White House-I don't know, it’s been a couple of years ago now. You know, you can’t just point to two things happening at the same time and say, “Well, one caused the other” right?-īob: -but you do have to look at kind of our social pathologies, as a nation today, and the fact that there are a lot of absent dads in homes today. What do you do, as a young man, when you grew up, never having heard your father say, “Well done, son”? We’ll find out today.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Our host is the President of FamilyLife ®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine. I wanted my dad to walk through the door, right then, and say it was going to be okay, and say that I was good at this, and that I needed to keep working on it-and realized, very deep, emotionally, “This will never, ever happen,”-that he wasn't going to.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, April 12 th. It was late one night-shut down the computer. You’re five chapters into a book-nobody else has read it-all the voices are saying, “You’ve gone down the wrong trail,” “It’s not working out,” “It’s not going to be good.” Here’s Donald Miller.ĭon: Being a writer, there are times you’re really alone. Bob: There is a longing, deep in the heart of a boy, for his father’s approval.

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