Merciful caress for those without a daddy
Today, spazio + spadoni wishes all the dads in the world and a special caress to all those children without a father
And Father’s Day has arrived, on which the sadness of some fights with the crafts, poems, and colorful cards of others…
It is the day when many of today’s parents are no longer the children. Or at least, the day when they cannot wish their father well. Because someone’s children will remain forever, memory of their roots.
It comes with the officialdom of all anniversaries, March 19, to make memories of people and events you will remember forever, regardless of calendars.
Because your loved ones are there, inside you, constantly and overwhelmingly knocking on your present.
Because grief is like a spider’s web: the closer you are to it, the more you get trapped in it.
And you would stay there for a long time, helpless and devoid of energy, rocking in silence staring into the emptiness of absence.
On that kind of seesaw that would only take you backward, through tears and regrets.
But then comes Life to “save” you, to have mercy on you and your wound. To caress that heart that beats even for those who are no longer there, leaving you only to follow up on the everyday and to plan, in spite of everything, for the future.
Moreover, you look around, and realize that you are not alone. There is a crowd of “orphans” out there who, even behind a smile, hide the emptiness that accompanies them every day.
Today’s thought, therefore, goes not only to all the dads in the world, but to all those children who feel lonely. To those who have lost their fathers. To those who never knew him. To those who have experienced the worst of it. To those who are far from him for a wide variety of reasons.
May the strength and tenderness of consolation reach them, as well as the merciful love of a God who will forever be the father of all.