Father Cry tells the story of Billy Wilson and his relationship to both his earthly father and his Heavenly Father. It also highlights the importance of having spiritual mothers and fathers. Spiritual fathers have been around for all of time. The Bible is full of examples of spiritual intergenerational pairings (Ester and Mordecai, Elijah and Elisha, Saul and Timothy, Peter and Paul … just to name a few). Spiritual fathers help pass the work of the Lord onto the next generation. They pass the baton of faith so to speak. Billy Wilson came from a broken home that caused him to become a broken and lost man. He found God his senior year of high school, met Lisa, and went to college to start his eventual path to ministry. His relationship with his earthly father was restored years after the divorce. Absent fathers cause of many of the problems in our society today. However, like in the story of Anna emailing her father, restoration is possible. We cry out for our father to love us and to hear us and be there…show more content… Our generation does not fully understand what a father should do due to the absent fathers and broken homes. Even with a poor or absent earthly father, we all need a father in our lives. We need the Father. One part of the book really stuck out to me: the stories of how failure of one generation can cause the next generation strife. Saul did not kill Agag when God directly told him too. A long time after that, Haman (a descendent of Agag) tried to kill Ester and her people (descendants of Saul). President Bush did not use enough force during the 1990s in Iraq and it cost his son President Bush a lot of money, loss, and infamy when he sent soldiers to Iraq. Each generation plays its part. The son can be punished by the sins of his father. Not to say that if I sin that my children will be punished for my iniquity but the impact of my sin impacts all those around me especially my
