It was Sister Sue Mosteller who told him, ‘Whether you are the younger son or the elder son, you have to realize that you are called to become the father.’ Now was the time for him to claim his true vocation: to be a father who could welcome his children home without asking them any questions and without wanting anything from them in return. If he looked at the father in the painting, she told him, he would know who he was called to be. Daybreak needed him, not just as a good friend or as a kind brother, but as a father who could claim for himself the authority of true compassion.
