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Four Father's Day cards
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
Each year, I buy four Father’s Day cards because I feel like I have “four dads,” men who were each father figures to me.
Even though I grew up without my real dad around full time, I’ve realized that I was super-blessed to have had such caring people in my life. Such a blessing had been evident all along, but it took me years to wake up to this to fully appreciate it. God had always been guiding and nurturing me through loving expressions of fatherhood.
Growing up, I felt I lacked someone fundamental in my life since my parents separated when I was young. I sometimes felt “less than” other kids who had “complete” families, and I felt I was missing out on someone who was supposed to always be there. It took a simple understanding of spiritual truths I had learned in Christian Science to help me finally accept, as an adult, that I had been blessed so many times over with the gracious and caring individuals who came into my family’s life during challenging times.
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Mark Pierce is from Long Beach, California.
