{"id":3561,"date":"2017-04-15T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abidingfathers.org\/?p=746"},"modified":"2017-04-15T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T15:21:52","slug":"an-earthly-father-is-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/2017\/04\/15\/an-earthly-father-is-just-that\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earthly Father is Just That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMnkzhBaPpk\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Joel Triska speaks about his father and lessons he has learned as a father<\/h3>\n<p>When learning about his own father, Joel kept in mind that his earthly father was just that, earthly.<\/p>\n<p>As Joel learned about his father&#8217;s story; his dad disappeared when he was just 2 years old. Joel&#8217;s dad never met his own father until he was 23 years old, two weeks before he was married. He had him declared legally dead so he could receive veteran&#8217;s payments. His dad moved across the country, changed his name and started a new life with a new family, then just came out of the wood-work 20+ years later.<\/p>\n<p>With his own father, Joel&#8217;s dad was physically present, which was a vast improvement from his dad&#8217;s own experience. He was physically present yet there was a sense of absence, perhaps emotionally. Only through counseling did Joel understand the impact that had on his life. It jars you.<\/p>\n<p>Joel&#8217;s dad was doing his best and today they now have a great relationship, thanks to God&#8217;s grace. He&#8217;s grateful and it&#8217;s easy to look back with regret, but that is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absence impacts children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earthly fathers are just that.<\/p>\n<p>I learned grace. I learned compassion. As a father myself, I feel this for other fathers too that this is a heavy burden. This is not a light burden. This is important and requires our best efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin?v=001SYhPDGAbpNbVkPs3xFmAWcxdttKVJBgS0zlupD0SpdxHN2UR32cPHLnz3bnGa3wdUjyAz7y44eSNI1PcY7MAEGT_A6whkqL-Z4Q1O4odxFB336mFuQ4WeTVGIkmlPPY8hu0wT60NAeYukdJRfkFTqsYGxhZGQIlzASprPEyM6fQ%3D\">Subscribe<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin?v=001SYhPDGAbpNbVkPs3xFmAWcxdttKVJBgS0zlupD0SpdxHN2UR32cPHLnz3bnGa3wdUjyAz7y44eSNI1PcY7MAEGT_A6whkqL-Z4Q1O4odxFB336mFuQ4WeTVGIkmlPPY8hu0wT60NAeYukdJRfkFTqsYGxhZGQIlzASprPEyM6fQ%3D\">the Be The Dad Movement email list<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Triska speaks about his father and lessons he has learned as a father When learning about his own father, Joel kept in mind that his earthly father was just that, earthly. As Joel learned about his father&#8217;s story; his dad disappeared when he was just 2 years old. Joel&#8217;s dad never met his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[141,91,150],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-role","tag-absent","tag-btd","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}