I See His Love More Clearly Now

Dear Delyara, My father has never been a man of emotional sentences. He doesn’t know how to sit down and say the exact thing. He doesn’t ask deep questions in the right tone at the right time. He doesn’t perform softness in the way some people need. But lately I’ve been noticing the shape of his love in other places. He remembers practical things. Checks details. Asks if something got fixed. Makes sure the car is okay. Worries in his own disguised way. Carries responsibility like it means something. For years I mostly focused on what he couldn’t offer. Now I can see what he did. That shift doesn’t erase everything. But it has made gratitude possible in a room where only disappointment used to sit.