Fletcher Lang

Mar 26, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Fletcher Lang |Jeremy Treat |Rutledge Etheridge III |Katie Polski

Inside the fortress of my heart, there was a heavily bolted door labeled “father issues.” After my father died in 2021, I gathered the courage to unlock the door and walk into the cobwebbed and haunted room. My father and I weren’t close. He and my mother divorced when I was 5. For 10 years afterward, I saw him sporadically. In the 20 years afterward, we spoke on the phone three times. I called him every time. He always ended the conversation sooner than I wanted.