Can I call him Dad?

I have been musing over the last 24 hours on something a young boy about the age of 6 said recently. His mom is a young widow who has met and, dare I say, fallen in love with a wonderful man from a far distance. They are desperately working to bring their lives together...in the name of love. This sweet child says of mom's partner, "Can I call him Dad?'Mom says, "You already have a Dad." Boy responds, "My real dad is Daddy. Charlie (name changed to protect the innocent) can be Dad." With tears streaming down my face, my heart went out to this precious child who loves his Daddy, but has so much love in his heart to be able to love a Dad. So many lose a dad or feel the absence of a father figure that there are holes left in their hearts, in their very beings that only a father can fill and just as with any broken heart some choose to love again and some do not. What a beautiful example of the purity of a child's heart. The wisdom in this young soul to know that he has the choice to love his Daddy and to love mom's partner as Dad is overwhelming. Oh that we could all know and accept that each of us has the choice to love again, to grow through and beyond our hurts just as this young child has.