Two Fathers Day Messages…

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My dad, a very brilliant man, and I struggled until the last days of his life. He was bitter and could not forgive his father. His anger stemmed from not going to High School in order to stay home and help his mother raise his 9 younger brothers and sisters.

He never wanted marriage until after returning from the WW2 Army-Air Force and was chided into it by my mother’s siblings.
He felt safe with her, as due to her health issues, children were not to be expected.

I was diagnosed as a tumor while in her womb and I felt the shock when she was told that she would carry this tumor in her arms.
Now his trauma and lack of parental guidance became my cross to bear.

As a result I resented his bitterness and failure to help me make correct childhood decisions. His anger and pain became mine and I rebelled against all authority.

My own daughter became a victim of it all as well, having been born when I was 19 years old and was still in a place of self-abuse but not seeing it as I lived in my own Flower Child Life Imagination.

I send Blessings to her and her daughter for having to endure the ancestral pain that could not be understood or averted and which came from both of her parents.

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Steve Farrell’s Father’s Day Message

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.
father holds sons hand

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!

In Oneness and service,
Steve Farrell

Blessings to ALL of Peace, Light, and Love
Charlie Riverman Bergeron