backwards thinking on fathers~

Yesterday I read a short little book on the subject of contraception vs abortifacients called Open Embrace, A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception. Basically it's about natural family planning as compared to artificial means of birth control. In the foreward by J. Buudziszewski, he was talking about the concept of God being the model for fathers. I know I often have to struggle to correct my thinking in how I view the Father, so I thought this quote was great...

"We need to take more seriously the teaching that God is the Father,

the uncreated Father, the model for created fathers.

We imagine that he is called Father because He is vaguely like a father;

no, fathers are called fathers because they are vaguely like Him."

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Now that is something I want to hold on to.