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A Father’s Day Prayer
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- Oh, Lord, let me not dwell on the ingratitude of sons and daughters… Bless them.
- Let me not call up a list of their faults and failings… Help them.
- Deliver me from the miserable mental balance sheets that my weak and foolish nature keeps trying to make come out right.
- Help me to remember that whatever most of us do for our children we do it out of instinct, duty, and our own pleasure in doing it. Thank you for those things, which were their own reward.
- God, bless my own parents who did so much for me, and whom I failed and hurt unknowingly many times. Let their kindness, common sense, and forgiveness fill me now and flow out to my sons and daughters., who do not realize.
- When they’re too busy, to write or phone, when they seem to me thoughtless, inconsiderate, even cruel—forgive them, bless them, and ease the strain of their lives.
- Grant me the gift of understanding, God. You, who must understand and forgive so much of all of us, your children, please guide me now.
- Let me not judge, that I be not judged.
- The accounts are closed. The ledgers of love are balanced. Thank you for this freeing knowledge. Amen.
- Marjorie Holmes
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