Father God

I just finished reading Donald Miller's latest book, To Own a Dragon. It's Don's reflections on growing up without a father. It's mostly about father-son relationships (or a lack thereof) so I didn't get as much out of it as his other books but there was one thing that stood out for me. He was writing about God fathering us and he wrote that our Father in Heaven is not afraid to be close to us. That thought stunned me. I've only known a father who was afraid to be close to me. But God is not afraid to be close to me. I may have been afraid to be close to my dad and I may be afraid of being close to God but if God isn't afraid, then He can win me over. How much I wanted that from my dad.