Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker wrote something about her father that I have always remembered: “When I was a little girl, I accidentally broke a fruit jar. Several brothers and sisters were nearby who could have done it. But my father turned to me and asked, “Did you “break the jar, Alice?” Looking in his large brown eyes, I knew he wanted me to tell the truth. I also knew he might punish me if I did. But the truth inside me wanted badly to be expressed. “I broke the jar, I said. The love in my father’s eyes rewarded and embraced me. Suddenly I felt an inner peace that I can still recall with gratitude to this day.” Alice Walker’s loving account of that day with her father always reminds me of how deeply we are all loved by God. No matter what any of us may have ever done, no matter how terrible we may feel about past transgressions or sins, we can rest assured that we all have a loving Father who looks at us with those large brown eyes as we admit our faults and failings and simply loves us into wholeness and embraces us with profound peace. On this Father’s Day, remember your own father, but also recall the loving Father you have in heaven whose love rewards and embraces you!