The return to the "Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name" allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval.
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
faith, fatherhood, god, parents