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The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail

You and I are much too sophisticated to believe that the One Jesus calls Father is necessarily anything like ours. Of course God isn’t like the father who left us, or the one who suffered with mental illness, or the one who drank too much, or died too early. Who would even think that? We’re certainly too savvy to believe that something about us caused our fathers to leave us. That’s like voodoo rain-god crazy.

Then, when we least expect it—kapow! We discover that that’s exactly what we’ve believed, in our bones, all along. In our deepest places we have suspected both that God could not be trusted and that we have been unworthy of love, human or divine. Though our heads and hearts have tried to seal up the rupture, it’s too late. It’s already out there.

The Girl in the Orange Dress describes the journey of one woman who held it together through a rocky childhood and, after finding her birthparents as a young adult, began to come unglued. Graciously, as she is gently loved back together through human agents, she comes to know a Father who does not fail.  

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