“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” – 1 John 3:1
In 1946, Bill and Thelma Iahn divorced. Thelma took their young son William and vowed Bill would never see their young son again.
The only memory Bill had was a picture of his son on a rocking horse with the inscription that read: “To My Daddy, Dec. 25, 1945.”
Thelma left their home in Leadwood, Missouri not to be heard of again.
Bill longed to see is his missing son, but eventually gave up hope of seeing him again.
Then one day in 2003, Bill's great-nephew, Denny Huff, was chatting with a friend about his Uncle Bill's long-lost son.
The friend happened to be a genealogy buff, and with some surprisingly quick research on the Internet, she produced a name and phone number in Arizona.
"I think we found Billy," said Dennis.
"When you wait that long — 58 years — you just don't think it's going to happen," said 87-year-old Bill.
Bill was then hesitant to contact his son, fearing he would not want to hear from Bill.
But the Lord was working in William’s life too. Two weeks earlier, William’s wife Lydia asked: “Wouldn't it be nice to know what happened to your dad?"
"Then, two weeks later, boom! God gave us an answer," Lydia said.
The two estranged men were reconciled and became family again.
We have a loving Heavenly Father who desires for us to be reconciled to Him and to be His children. Today in prayer, praise Jesus that He loves you and you have a Father who loves you in Heaven.
"Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God." - Calvin Coolidge
God’s Word: “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus” – Galatians 3:26
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2011, Devotional E-Mail
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