Do you know how deeply God the Father cherishes you? Can you feel him doting on you? We’ve all had human fathers whose imperfections tainted our image of God the Father. In this episode of the podcast show Footsteps to Heaven, Terry Modica shares the story of how she met the Father after growing up without him. Then she will lead you into a closer relationship with him through the Litany of the Father’s Heart, which is included in chapter 30. Excerpt: God the Father dotes on us. God the Father wants to have a very intimate relationship with us. As I was growing up, Jesus was the one that I felt I could have that with. The Father was the one I really didn’t want much to do with because I was afraid of him. When I became an adult, I had a spiritual director who helped me meet […] Read More
Author: Terry Modica
When my mom was four years old, she was taken from her family and placed into the home of foster parents. Ten years later, the couple finally adopted her. In-between, she didn’t know to which family she truly belonged. This made a lifelong impact on her. Do you feel this way about God’s Fatherhood? Are you aware of the benefits of being been fully adopted by the Father in all of his royal majesty? Or are you just in foster care? But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are […] Read More