Grati-dude for Fathers

This Father’s Day, let’s not only honor all the fathers and father-like figures in our lives but also extend to them a lot of gratitude. Being a parent is a huge responsibility, and we owe a majority of the shape and texture of our lives to our parents. Fathers — and mothers — set the family culture and design the family’s path into the future, the path from which each member will eventually branch off and create their own.

And at this moment, in 2023, the world is experiencing an invitation to shift to a new way of living and being on this earth. A shift away from an absolute separation of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine to a balance of these energies.

Being a father means many things: producing, providing, supporting, and guiding. By definition, “father” also means “source” or “a generative force.” Therefore, being a father calls for action, not presence. But when we move toward centering both the masculine and feminine energies, that’s when we start living more consciously, granting equal importance to action and presence.

Fathers, what would happen if you started to listen to that small, still voice inside of you instead of the large, restless noise of the external world? As we work to mature our species, to unfold a future of harmony and awaken to the interconnectedness of the Universe, it’s essential to realize that each and every one of us is a part of the generative force of life.

Every day, there are nearly eight billion people on Earth creating in the image of the Creator. And more than 70 million of them are fathers in the United States alone. What if instead of fathering in the manner of old — a more austere and authoritarian way of parenting, a resistance to our connection with all life and the cohesion of the Universe — we took residence in the cohesion and really attuned ourselves to the Divine Oneness of life?

Residing in that cohesion requires presence. And presence is a space — a pause from action that invites a new form of fatherhood to emerge.

So this Father’s Day, we’re celebrating the fathers of the past who helped us reach this evolutionary moment, we’re celebrating the fathers of today who are embracing a new type of fatherhood and helping to create the world we want to unfold, and we’re celebrating the fathers of the future who will listen, understand, connect, and preserve more than those who came before them. I’m guessing many of you, the fathers reading this message, fall into all three categories!

Thank you to all the fathers in our lives — our colleagues, our partners, our sons, and our friends — who are answering the call, awakening to the universal frequency, and doing the work to generate a more harmonious and peaceful world.

Happy Father’s Day!

    -Steve Farrell
www.humanitysteam.org