A 20-year-old Winnipegger has released a book that highlights the keys to bettering relationships between fathers and sons with faith-based guidance.

Isaac Mogilevsky author of A Letter To My Father and Director of Daily Disciple was inspired after conversations with his father, Ian Mogilevsky, about the importance of father-son relationships.

"People ask, 'okay, are these actual letters that you wrote to your father?' I say, no they are not, but I wish they were," Isaac says. That is the foundation of this book's development. Isaac realized that a lot of young men, like him, go through many moments in life that they want to verbalize and talk through with their fathers, but something holds them back.  

"This book is written from a son's perspective. At the beginning of each chapter, you'll encounter a letter written from a son to his father asking important questions, expressing doubts, and sharing experiences while growing up from adolescence to becoming a young man.

"Digging into these topics was a really vulnerable thing," Isaac says.

"I love you, I'm proud of you, and I am on your side."

Throughout the book, Isaac says, "it engages with fathers in real biblical truth and it calls on them to step off the sidelines and make a real meaningful impact on their son's lives," Isaac says.

His father, says he was really excited about it. "There is one chapter that definitely stands out. It is what a father needs to communicate to his son, and that is: 'I love you, I'm proud of you, and I am on your side'," Ian says. 

Isaac believes the book shines a light not only on the importance of father-son relationships but also on "relationships with God our heavenly father and how important that is in our own lives," Isaac says.

"God has placed you in your son's life for a reason, don't waste that, it is an amazing journey."

He overcame odds to make this book come to life. At first, he didn't know if he would be able to do it or if he was the right person to write the book. 

"I'm dyslexic, so I have trouble reading and writing. From the time I was really little, reading and writing, that was something I stayed away from," Isaac says. However, it did not stop him. He left it in God's hands.

"My faith is in Him, my hope is in Him. He has called me to this, and I am using what He has given me, the resources and gifts He has equipped me with regardless of the fear and insecurity that I may feel," Isaac says. 

The book launch was on November 2, and according to Ian, it is doing what it set out to do. "Those who have read it have really been positive about it and saw it as a really important tool in growing in their relationship with their own sons," Ian says.

Ultimately, Isaac says if there`s one thing that he would say to his future son and that he wants readers to internalize it`s this: "God has placed you in your son's life for a reason, don't waste that, it is an amazing journey."