• Life

    Thoughts on Fatherhood, Faith and Suffering

    Letter to a friend with a terrible father: Written on April 20, 2020  I knew being a good father was important, but I didn’t truly realize the impact and importance of the “why” until recently.  My father was in the hospital with double pneumonia back in February.  It almost killed him.  I think he had Covid19.  All tests were normal when my Mom and brother finally talked him into going to the ER Monday 2/17/20.   Before releasing him that evening, the ER doc ordered a CT of his lungs just to be sure everything was ok.  Things were not okay.  It was bilateral pneumonia that the X-ray missed.  He would…