What was I to do with this upcoming holiday? How do I handle a day set apart for celebrating “Fathers” when my Father and husband (father of my 3 children) died 8 months apart from each other. I dreaded it. It felt too painful to handle. There are no words to describe this all-encompassing void and yet, I couldn’t avoid it. Reminders were everyone . . . . advertisements for Father’s Day gifts in the mail, on the TV, in shopping malls, radio . . . .special recognition of fathers anticipated at church (to be honest I avoided church on Father’s Day for several years after my husband and father died).