Memories

It was eight years ago today my Dad died.  In some ways it seems so long ago and in other ways the pain is fresh.  I miss him a lot. 

He was an aeronautical engineer plus he had more common sense than four people put together!  Though he was a quiet man, stoic, he loved deeply and listened well. 

It hurts that he did not get to see our children graduate or marry.  He will not hold his great-grandchildren.

Yet, in so many ways, he is with me all the time.  I feel his presence when I am lonely.  I hear his words of wisdom when I am questioning.  I feel his arms around me when I am scared. 

My earthly father had so many characteristics of my Heavenly Father.  Perhaps that is why my faith is so simple.  I am blessed.

God is good.