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Published by bryan | Filed under Don Answers your ???s
Hi Don!
I’m sure you hear this a million times a week, but I wanted to thank you and tell you how grateful I am for your work. Of course I’m referring to your amazing books, but more than that, your entire ministry. Each time I read from one of your books or hear you speak, I find myself challenged in a new way. I heard you speak this past November at SPU and just recently in Kent for the World Vision event. I was hoping to chat with you after the event but was only able to say goodbye. I wanted to share with you how you’ve challenged me to loosen the self addiction noose and find something or someone to give to outside of myself. Last October I decided to sponsor a child from Guatemala through World Vision. I can’t begin to explain the joy that fills me by simply helping this little girl in a small way each month. Thank you for that! I also had a question for you that night. I wanted to know how I can be praying for you. I pray for you and your ministry all the time but would love to pray for a specific need or concern if you had one. Please let me know! Thank you, Don for your faithfulness in serving Christ and for doing it with truth, humility, and your great sense of humor. Congratulations on TOAD! I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Boxers and a spoon covered in peanut butter, ha? 
Come back to Seattle SOON!
Dayna
Dayna,
both events were terrific, and its wonderful to hear you are going to sponsor a child. world vision is an amazing organization. in terms of praying for me, you can pray for the belmont foundation. it’s going to be difficult work, and i’m going to need all the help i can get. and thanks so much for your offer to pray, dayna. that means a great deal. much love to you.
don
April 29th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Greetings Don,
I finished To Own a Dragon this week and wanted to thank you for writing it in the honesty and authenticity of who you are.
I’m a teacher originally from inner city Toronto, having taught kids in inner city and now in a private international school, and I’ve noticed that regardless of their material means, kids all want and need the same thing - which is their parents’ time, energy and love.
I think your book touches the nerve of not only those who grew up without a father, but those who did with a father who was physically present but emotionally and spiritually absent. I’ve leant my copy of Dragon to a friend who has father issues so I can’t quote it directly but that thing John said about how we perceive our earthly father becoming a stumbling block in our relationship with Father God or a doorway to Him, depending on the nature of it really resonated for me.
I’ve done some work with orphans, most recently in Tanzania and I’m starting to see what looks like a widespread global absence of fathers and parents either due to absenteeism or due to AIDS and poverty. There are generations of children all over the world growing up without the blessings from their earthly father (15 million in sub-Saharan Africa are orphaned and this number is estimated to reach 25 million by the year 2015. How many children are fatherless in the U.S./North America?) How many will grow up with the wrong idea of what a father is and project this on to God? It seems to be a crafty plan…
Like the writings of Henri Nouwen, and the Father Heart Ministries of Ed Piorek, Jack Frost and others, To Own a Dragon ushers in a truth about the state of our hearts and our need for our Father’s love. You’ve offerend another wonderful flavor of Christian rhetoric reaching those who don’t respond to others. He is such a big God.
Malachi 4:6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. God bless the Imago Dei church and the Belmont Foundating and all of the kids whose hearts will get touched. It’s an important work Don. Bless you.