This episode is dedicated to my Father, Juan Lara, who joined our Heavenly Father on June 16th, 2024 and on Father’s Day. While his departure brought much sadness, God brought joy to help offset some of the pain of losing him. My father is a very special man in my life and I always considered myself to be “one blessed girl” to have a father like him.
This will be a 2-part series on discussing the importance the role that fathers have in our lives and how they influence our relationship with God. I title this episode “A Father’s Gift”. Listen to how my father’s last months of life led me to be more curious about, “Who is God?” and further leaned into a relationship with Christ, His love. How close my father was walking with God, allowed many blessings to be poured into my life, and got a glimpse of Heaven.
How can men become better fathers to bring blessings and not curses to their future generations. Men can change their story of adversity into a story of triumph; through finding healing with Christ.
Joining me is my dear friend and sister in Christ, Jackie Morales. Mark 7:6 New International Version: 6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Credit to Pastor David Platt, from Washington, DC
Transcript:
Welcome to Physician Heal Thyself, the podcast empowering you to take a whole-person approach to your well-being, spirit, soul, and body. Join me your host, Dr. Ana Lara, nature pathic, doctor, entrepreneur, and a servant of Jesus Christ. We are not just a body, we are spirit and soul. It’s time to integrate medicine and spirituality into our healing. Let’s get started. Welcome back to Physician Healing Self, the podcast. This is episode 16. I’m your host, Dr. Alara, and we’re continuing. This is part two with my guest Jackie Morales. Thank you again for we’re continuing the conversation. We left off kind of in the middle of something juicy.
Like a cliffhanger.
Yeah, cliffhanger. I was talking about before we ended the last episode on the importance of having a genuine relationship with God and with other people. That is something that’s so important to me and the older I get, I see why. So I want to read from the book of Mark chapter seven verse six. This is Jesus who’s speaking here. He says, he replied, Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you. Hypocrites, as it is written, these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are merely human rules. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions. And he goes on to say, and he continues, you have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions. For Moses said, honor your father and mother and anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their mother, their father or mother is Corbin that is devoted to God and then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. Thus, you nullify the word of God by the traditions and you have handed down and you do many things like that.
Listen to me, everyone and understand this, nothing outside a person can defile them by defile them, by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them. So back to that first part of these people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And I say these things with all due respect, but the modern, church, Christian Church and churches in general.
That’s what they’re doing. I see these, we have made new traditions in church and we’re far, far removed from having really being that close to God in our hearts.
We’re saying all the right things. We’re doing all the right things, but there’s an absence there and it’s the absence of Holy Spirit.
Yeah. It’s unfortunate because for me, I love going to church. I love to worship and it’s a sense of community, but I have found myself having more of a relationship with God and being over here. I don’t know. Sometimes I feel disappointed in the church because I am like, oh, I wish I didn’t see that. Oh, because you witness it for yourself and then you feel it. You discern it. Holy Spirit will talk to you. And then you’re like, okay, well, I guess I’m going to go and try and find another church. But yeah, I completely agree with what you’re saying and I feel that because we are in the end times it’s just going to get worse.
And this is something that I wanted to bring because my father, our dads were not big shots. My dad had a fourth-grade education. He didn’t have a business. He didn’t have the titles and the money and all. He didn’t have that.
But this man had gold.
Oh yeah. He had goals. And I don’t think people see these things though.
No.
He served God in his, he had God in his heart. He had this relationship and he was so humble that he never was out here demonstrating to everyone what he’s doing, what he knows. He knew a lot, but he taught us in an indirect way about God. And he did sit down. He always used nature to explain how God works in our lives. And so I want that genuine relationship with God, that I don’t need to be in an altar. I don’t need for people to see me, that I’m on my knees praying to God that I’m desperate. I want that relationship to be genuine and sacred.
And you’re right, I love the community, but unfortunately, people are so distracted by what truly matters right now, and it’s not the show and the lights and all of that.
Yeah, yeah. It’s very fleshy out here,
Very fleshy. I found this, and I’m going to give credit to this on the notes of this episode, I went to this website and found this writings from this pastor in Washington dc David Platt,
And I’m going to give him credit for what he wrote because as I was reading this, I really felt like this is how I feel. And so he says, father, help us to authentically worship. May we honor you both with our lips and our lives. How possible is it that in my life and your life to do all sorts of things in supposed religion, devotion, religious activity? This is so humbling just to think about it, that it’s possible for me to lead a podcast called Pray the Word and take a few minutes and do this and just be talking. And my heart is just in a totally different place. It’s possible to pray and be saying words, but my heart is not bringing glory to God. It’s possible to be singing a song in musical worship gathered with the church or at home and singing, gather on a screen.
He recorded this during the, or put this out during the pandemic, whatever it might be, but it’s possible to sing. And our heart is so totally is in a totally different place. And so we’re driven to pray even right now. And he says, mark seven, six reminds us to be authentic. God, please examine our hearts. Test our hearts, soften our hearts. Help us we pray, to glorify you with hearts that are close to you, hearts that are attuned to you, that is not just going through motions. And that’s key right there. I don’t just want to go through the motions because it becomes dead.
It’s dead works. God, keep us from monotonous, confirmatory religious motions that assume to claim to honor you with your lips. While our hearts are actually far from you. God, please grant that we would authentically worship you, that we would authentically pray, that we would authentically meditate upon your word, not just read through it, but that our hearts would be engaged in it. That when we worship with our church, that our hearts would be in tune with your spirit, that in our interactions with each other, that you would give us tender hearts towards you, that when then flow into the love we have for one another. Oh God, we pray that it would not be said of us. This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts is far from me. God, may that not be said of me. May that not be said of any person listening right now. May it be said to us that we honor you with our lips and our hearts. It’s close to you. And he says, in Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Jesus name. That’s a whole word right there. That’s a whole word.
I want what comes out of my mouth to be what’s coming out of my heart. How do we do that? How do we align that? And I’m going to tell you, and this is why I wanted to have this conversation, because the last six months of my father’s life, so we’re recording this, it’s August 10th. He passed away almost two months ago. It doesn’t even seem like it’s been two months. No. But the last six months of his life, God was showing me this man who I called Father. And I see as a teacher and I see these elements of him, and I’m like, who is this man? It made me more curious to know who is God. Amen.
That’s where it starts. Girl. Isn’t that amazing? It’s like you wake up excited because you’re like, I’m on this journey to learn more about this man, to learn more about God’s love and the mystery. It’s like a love story.
It is. And that’s when the aha moment dropped into my spirit of it’s my Father, how close he’s walking with God in his life. And in these last moments, these last months of his life, it drew me in. It made me lean in. I want to see a glimpse of heaven, but I want to see your face too, Lord, and I just want to see it. I want to learn from you and hear you, and I want to know your character. And so it made me very curious to know who God is. And I thought that’s the blessing. That is the gift of the Father. If our fathers are aligned with God’s word and they’re walking next to him, not because they’re perfect, I’ve had a lot of people say, well, no one can be perfect like Jesus. Now can He didn’t say he came for the perfect. No, quite the opposite. Yes, yes. Quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. But seeing my father through this journey, I never heard this man complain about the pain, all the medical interventions they were doing on him. I thought he would’ve been like, just let it go. I’m done.
No, he said, I want to try everything until nothing can be done and I’ll be in peace regardless. I’ll be in peace if God takes me. And he meant that I could feel and see that in him that he meant that.
Wow, it’s so crazy talking about our dads. It reminded me of a moment of no matter what they were going through like you said, and when my dad was waking up from the coma that he had been in for three months, my mom’s nickname for my dad is Sugar Club. So when he was waking up and the doctors are like Mr. Morales, they’re like, what’s your name? And he’s like, sugar club, of course. And it’s just still with everything that was going on, he still has that mindset, that peace, that pureness of what’s in his heart. And they just teach us so much. And the importance of a parent and a father in a child’s life is everything. If someone’s watching right now and they’ve been struggling as a parent, maybe not just as a father, but as a mother, just know that the impact that you have on your child’s life is going to follow them for the rest of their lives.
Absolutely.
And here we are, grown women and still talking about the impact that our parents have on our lives, especially our dads. Our dads.
Yeah. That’s the blessing. If men can align with God, have a relationship because they want the relationship, not because your wife and if someone else is making you do it, but you genuinely want to have this relationship with your heavenly Father. And I get it that some men don’t have good father figures. That doesn’t excuse you to be a poor parent either, to not be a man of God. If anything that should propel you, that should bring out the desire in you to want to be better. To say, Hey, based on how I live my life, it’s either going to bring a blessing or a curse.
Ain’t that the truth? That’s what you’re doing. And unfortunately, a lot of men are picking the curse.
Well because they become a lover of selves and it’s about them, but they’re called to lead. And you have a lot of women out here that are working both of the masculine and the feminine, and the women are leading because there’s a loss there. And we’re feeling it. We’re feeling it as wives, as children, and daughters.
Listen, we need men to step it up, please. And this is in a kind way, in a genuine way to say, we need you to step it up because there is power in the male in a family. And yeah, you’re not going to be perfect. And so what if you do come from a family that was broken? Maybe you didn’t have your father in your life, maybe he was abusive, an alcoholic on drugs, whatever it was, that doesn’t have to be your story.
Absolutely.
You can change it. And this is why I say I don’t understand how people can live life without God. Because regardless, we’re all going to live and experience challenges and obstacles and downtimes. But I’ll tell you, there’s no way that I could have survived this whole year and beyond if God wasn’t that present in my life and in my dad’s life and my family. There’s no way I started this podcast during this whole time.
Who does that? I think it had just happened when you started the Podcast. It was like in March. I’m like, Hey, once again, I heard from God. I was at the gym. I get all these revelations when I’m working out. So the key point here is to move your body. You might get a Revelation, and you might hear from God.
You might hear from God when you’re working, it makes sense. You’re working out, you’re moving and you’re getting, you’re silencing the mind. And this made it, I heard God say, start the podcast or you’re going to regret it. And so I did. I reached out, started moving things mid-April, started recording in May, and the first episode was out the week that he passed away. So it gave me an opportunity to say, Hey, look, dad, look what I started. He’s like, I have a pretty good look.
I love that. I love that.
So that gave me this. It might seem foolish to someone, but it was nice for my dad to see one more thing that I accomplished and that I give God the credit for. And him too, because our parents have sacrificed a lot. He sacrificed a lot to be here. And that was something I was never willing to squander is the opportunities that we had in this country because of the sacrifices that our parents made, the discrimination and the poor treatment, all of that. We overcame a lot. And so going back to the blessing or the curse, we need men to build themselves up and be strong. And the only way you’re going to find that deep healing of those wounds in your heart and your mind and your soul is to lean into God.
Yeah.
That’s it. He is a great physician.
That’s it. You lean in, you lean in, and you do it for yourself first. And you build that relationship and everything else will follow.
It’ll give you the strength to get through life.
You have to soften your heart. That’s where it starts. Humble yourself, humble yourself, and be willing. Even if you have a little tiny crack of willingness, God is going to storm into that crack in your heart and bring change.
I always say that God is a gentleman.
Oh, he’s so what?
He knows where you’re at. He knows how much you can push. He’s such a gentleman. He’s so faithful and his word is true, and it does not come back to him. Void. Void.
Amen.
And he always says that He knows the plans that he has for us to give us hope in the future and not to bring harm our way. This is a very faithful God, a man of his word. And we need for men to stick up and be men of their word and start their relationship with Christ and everything else will follow. It will.
Wow.
It seems like it’s so easy, and I know it’s not because we’ve all gone through our, it’s not building our relationship with Christ. When you say yes to that, to walking on that narrow path, you’re saying yes. But there’s a lot that comes with it. A lot of responsibility. And it’s like that’s why we talk about it all the time, sis, when we say putting on the full armor of God. Amen. Because the minute we step out that door, it’s on.
I was praying the whole time coming here.
Yeah.
Like I said, the last four weeks have been constant attack after attack because we are walking and executing the plan. And like I said, this message is not to be harmful to men. If anything, it’s encouragement. Absolutely. And also to debunk, to break all of these perceptions of what a man should be like. It’s so interesting these times because some people get really carried away. And yes, men, we know that the Bible says wife, be submissive to your husband, but it also says men love your wives the way Christ loves the church, the way Christ loves the church. What does that love look like? So let’s talk about that because love is not bossy and demanding. Nope. It is not mean. It is not hurtful. It is not negligent. It is a lot of mindfulness, a lot of care in that relationship. And that’s where I, once again, I saw that through my father.
They were a reflection of that. It’s in Corinthians what love is. Right. And just a perfect example, when I pray for a man in my life, the first words out of my mouth are God, please send me a God-fearing man that’s going to lead. Right. That’s in my prayers. And I’m sure in a lot of other women’s prayers who may not have a significant other in their lives right now, but it’s like I don’t want to settle for anything else but that. And I remember someone had once asked me, what are you looking for in a man? And I’m like, he has to have fear in his heart for God that he has to lead and has to have a relationship with God. And I don’t want to settle for less.
So I mean, when we go back to the book of Genesis, and God created man and woman, he made man to lead to have dominion.
Right?
Yes. Am all lead me. Lead me.
Yeah, there was sin and then it was broken. And that’s exactly it. God said, Man, what have you done, Adam?
Where are you?
Where are you, Adam? He wasn’t asking for Eve. He’s not Eve. Why aren’t you up in here? He’s like, Adam, what have you done? Where are you, man? Where are you at? Well, get up in here. Oh, sorry. We need to talk. We need to have a word because they’re responsible. And because of that, regardless who started it, we all paid the price. We all descended from this lineage, and we all paid the price. However, when Jesus came, he came to restore that relationship with man. He came to restore that relationship with men and women. And so all we need to do is get ourselves up, dust ourselves off, remove the shackles that have already been broken and be humble to God. So to me, a real man has this humbleness. There’s this meekness in them. They know what their strengths are. They know that they’re physically and mentally able to exert themselves. They can be in masculine, but they’re going to choose this meekness of I will control this power that I have and be humble. And when the right time comes that I need to protect, there’s a time for that. Unfortunately, too many men wear their macho man shirts.
The ego, the ego. And I see it in church. I see it everywhere. And it’s like, oh God, once again, because I have a father, I have a heavenly father and an earthly father that honored and respected me differently.
Absolutely.
I was not a spoiled daughter. Mexican parents, and Mexican dads don’t do that. They don’t, is that right? Is it just me? No, I didn’t experience that. Like people say, oh, you were a daddy’s girl.
No, and then I had siblings. So there was never any favoritism. They love this all.
Amazing, and it’s the little things they do. I remember I wrote this poem when I was in eighth grade. It was love. It was about love. And it had to do with, it was just saying that I love you doesn’t mean a thing at all. For loving words are like the birds. When they hear winter’s call, love is a thing that proves itself a thousand times a day in the little things you do and the little things you say, wow, I still remember it. There’s more.
It Is so great.
But that’s all I remember for now. Sorry guys.
No, that’s so good. But that’s so good because I always say love is in action because it’s true. You can say all day, X, Y, Z, but show me what your actions.
Show me the details. Love is in the details.
And my dad did that. He did that. I never even remember watching my parents argue.
We talked about this.
Yeah. They didn’t ever argue with us growing up. You never saw that? No, no. They kept it. They were patient and understanding, and they knew when to figure things out outside of the home, so they wouldn’t bring that inside the home. And I’m like, man, we really need to go back to those days. Yes.
And that’s something that both men and women need to have that self-control, right? It’s living in different times.
Yeah.
There’s a lot of stress, a lot of things coming at us. And we need to quiet that noise. We need to learn to say no set boundaries and make time for family. That’s what we’re not doing. And I say we, because I find myself being part of that sometimes that we’re so busy with everything and then we forget about really putting the energy at home.
Yeah. It’s like a quote from Mother Theresa that I always carry with me if you want to make a change in this world, go home and love your family. And that’s where it starts. It starts in the home.
And why she said that, tell me. We know that she helped a lot of people who were dying on the streets. I mean, she worked with the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sickness. I mean, she shared stories of how, I won’t even share, but it’s too graphic. But the conditions that people were dying on the streets and how she would go out, her and the other people that worked with her, they would go out and feed them and help them and pray for them. And what they really needed was companionship.
Wow.
They need a relationship. And it’s interesting how we forget to do that. So in our families, it’s very easy to also do that avoidance thing. And right now, after my dad passed, I see that in my family, Hey, you still have a mom? And it’s like she’s not going to be around forever. So if you choose to not have that relationship with her, I have peace with my dad. I did everything that I could have done for him. And so I felt that I completed my assignment, my agreement with God and with him, and I’m at peace for that. Good. Now, there are moments that I am sad and I’m going to allow myself to grieve as anyone else, but I don’t have any regrets of my relationship with him. And what happened the way things happen, was ordained by God that way.
Amen.
I respect that.
Amen. That’s so good. Yeah. That’s so good to have that peace and to gather everything that your dad taught you, even though he didn’t even know he was teaching you things. He was just living his life according to God’s will.
Like that child.
Yeah, he knew, but he didn’t know. He was just living life every day. How come? Being grateful, always grateful, always giving glory to God and thanking God for that.
And that just brought to me, that no matter what we’re doing, our children, no matter what age, are always looking up to us. And so whatever choices and actions we take, they’re paying attention. They could be two years old, three years old, 20 Years old, or 45 years old. And we see our parents, how they’re going through that process. I could not understand how he had still so much joy in him, and he was in a hospital bed, he couldn’t get up. I mean, it got to the point when he was out, the times that he was at home, I was helping him go to the bathroom, cleaning him, cleaning his wounds.
Very vulnerable situations. And so when you’re young, you never think you’re going to be doing these things for your father.
Wow. What a moment. Because I remember my sister had shared a story, and it was during the last days that my dad was with us, and he really couldn’t do much anymore. And she told me that he would just look at himself in the mirror because he just couldn’t be that strong man, father. He was like sick. And I can’t even imagine what he was thinking in his mind when he would look at himself in the mirror and just say, because there were so many things that he still wanted to do for us as a father, and he couldn’t, but we were just a family full of love, and we made sure that he knew that everything’s okay, but even to their last days, they still want to be that strong father to us no matter what that is.
So Oh my God, that is so true. Yeah. Even though my dad was so humble, I was there when he took his last breaths,
And I remember witnessing this man, there was nothing weak though. He was very thin. He lost a lot of weight. And there was a point in his last week before he passed away, he’s like, look at my body. I’m nothing but bones. He’s like, it’s okay that you’re going to have a new body. But seeing him in those last hours as he was transitioning, I remember what I was witnessing was I saw a warrior on that bed. I did not see a weak, old, fragile man at all. I saw a strong warrior carrying his cross, and when he gave up his soul to God, you could see the light in him leave. And I know where he’s at. And so I remember feeling like this. I load lift off of me. I hadn’t slept for days. I didn’t eat. I was just right there with him. And I never saw weakness in this man at all. So sometimes men, I get it. I work with a lot of male patients as well. And when it comes to talking about mental health, they always say how they don’t want to be seen as weak.
And I said, yeah, but you are showing your weaknesses by you not healing those wounds, those hurt. It’s spilling over at you now. So one thing I want to share that some people may or may not know about this, but the longer we take to heal through our trauma, so with every decade it gets harder. I always say everyone’s journey is different. As we get into our from twenties to thirties, some people start getting signs of it’s time to heal those wounds. And you know what I see with these younger generations? They’re starting in their early twenties, which thank God, they’re starting to see I have these wounds. I need to heal through them. And it’s not a victim mentality at all.
They acknowledge that there are things in their childhood they recognize. They recognize. And so if you delay that healing past your thirties, past your forties, when you get into your fifties, it gets very challenging for people to then handle the trauma because they’ve been sweeping this under the rug for so many years. Now you got a mountain and you can’t just dust that off. And so I find that when people are in their fifties and older, when they process trauma, it is very difficult for them physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. So the sooner the people can do that, the better it is. But oftentimes, men’s trauma, it shows up in them emotionally. They’re overreacting with anger. They’re closing themselves off emotionally, not communicating or distancing themselves or indulging in things that they should that are not healthy. And this is not, doesn’t make you a good man. No. It actually makes you a weak man. What they don’t want to show up.
Because yeah, you don’t want to show up as a certain way, but you are showing up. You just can’t see it yourself. Everyone else can see your wounds.
Yeah, I’ve always seen, I don’t even like to say weak. I like to say vulnerable because I think that’s very strong. When a man can show up vulnerable, I’m like, that’s strength to me because you got something to work with now.
And I always say, you’re not going to go be vulnerable to everyone.
No.
But you do need to find someone, whether it’s your partner or a therapist, but you need to find someone that you feel heard, respected, and safe and that you can trust to help guide you through that healing process.
Because then you can be a man who has self-control, who is humble, who understands the love of the Father.
Amen.
Even if your father wasn’t the ideal father. That’s the message I really want to get across today, is that even if your father was not the ideal father, when you get close to God, you learn what a father should look like and what that relationship is. And we have misconstrued the idea of what a good father is here. It’s not someone who’s harsh. No, it’s not. You can get your son, your daughter to do things without yelling and being forceful on them. It actually requires a lot more.
Skill, patience, a lot more development, a lot more character. The fruits of the spirit. I was just thinking, open up your Bible. Start reading.
Start reading.
It’s going to tell you exactly how to show up. That’s what I tell people when people are like, how do I start? I’m like, just do this. Just God, reveal to me what I need to hear from you today. Use your word that’s simple, and then just open it up wherever it’s at and read. Oh look, do not let your heart envy sinners, but be zealous of the fear of the Lord all day. And just maybe read a couple of verses or the chapter however you like, and really sit with that. What does this mean if you don’t understand it? What does this mean? God, we have the internet.
There are a lot of commentators. You could put, oh, Proverbs 2317. What does this mean? There are so many ways to learn so many ways. So that’s the first way that I tell people to start is get the Bible and read it. If you feel intimidated by stepping foot in a church, I get it. I’ve been there. Just start reading the word of God. Start praying. Start praying out of here. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It could be very simple.
It could be, thank you, Jesus.
Thank you Jesus for today. Open my eyes, clear the path for me. Be present in my life. Show me what a father is. Show me what the role of a father is. There’s a scripture that you wanted to share.
Oh, yes, you were asking me, is there any scripture? And I’m like, there’s the one that comes to mind when I think about my dad. And it’s Proverbs 22, 6, and it says, train up a child in the way he should go. And when he is old, he’ll not depart from it. And he was such a beautiful reflection of that through his actions like we were speaking, and he loved God and Jesus so much. There was times where I would walk into the room and he would just be laying peacefully in his bed praying, and I’m like, wow, you pray in your room. Shut the door. Have your moment with Jesus. And I saw that. I saw that in my dad, and I was able to apply that to my life, and now my kids can too.
Yeah, I mean, for our audience, like I said, we understand that some people do not have the ideal father, and our hearts are with him, but there is healing. The healing through that is very important and leaning into God to let God be. That’s all our Father, we are all children to him, so let him heal our hearts and show us this is the healthy way to be a father in someone’s life.
It’s like you said earlier, lean in.
Lean in, lean in. That really is lean in because nothing’s what’s been working for you at this point. If it hasn’t been helping or working out, then what do you have to lose to lean in to have a relationship with God?
Amen.
You have nothing to lose. You have everything to gain. It’s a win-win situation. You win, your family wins. People you come across will win and God will win. He wants you in His kingdom.
All glory to God. God told me at the beginning of the year, he belongs to me. He says that all about us. You belong to me.
We belong to God. And as a good father, he wants the best for us.
So I just pray that as we wrap up here, I pray that anyone who is listening to this, this is really just, we’re just scratching the surface of this conversation, but I wanted to share the perspective of two women who, because of a good father figure in our lives, we know who we are in God, in his eyes. We know that our heavenly Father is the ultimate father, and he is an example of what a good father is. It’s humility and kindness and love and patience, and it’s not this overly macho, masculine father figure that the world has very twisted. The one thing that I really, really loved about my dad is that he had this way that just by the way, he would look at me. He would tell me he loved me without ever using words. I could feel his love. And in his last day, I remember he looked down as I was next to his bedside and he just gazed down at me.
And I couldn’t help but think of how Jesus must have looked down from the cross as he was being crucified. I could see his eyes looking down at me, and I could see through just the way he gazed at me, I could feel that love that my father had for me. And so I pray that if you didn’t have that father, that you heal through those wounds because your heavenly Father loves you, he loves you, and he never intended for harm. To scar you in such a way that you really lean in to have a relationship with God, and that you find healing in your mind, in your body, and in your soul, that you are once again restored to have joy and peace. I hope you’ve enjoyed this conversation. We’ll continue many more, but I just want to say thank you. Share this message with someone who you think might really benefit from. And as always, stay blessed and we’ll see you in the next episode. Thank you for listening to Physician Heal Thyself, the podcast. If you like what you’ve heard, please like, share and subscribe, help this message, and reach more people who may need to hear it. Leave your comments. I want to know what you think. If you’re interested in learning more about Raices, visit our website. Until next time, be blessed.