The desire to connect with our father is a God-given desire and a reflection of our longing for God, the ultimate and perfect Father. Just as the absence of an earthly father creates a void, the absence of God leaves people empty. Augustine once wrote in his Confessions, “The thought of you [God] stirs man so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises you because you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.”1 Our hearts find no peace until they rest in our