Ask a bunch of guys about their relationships with their dads, and they will either sprout a smile, be moved to tears, or display anger or indifference. The fact is that legacies of abandonment, disapproval, divorce, or anger robs boys of the father blessing and predispose them to self-destructive tendencies as grown men.
God's plan is not for our lives to be shaped by the losses or hurts from our past, but that we become the products of His work, shaped into the image of His Son.
Taken from Every Man, God's Man