![]() ![]() My father held my hand as I took my first steps. He is such a good man and it is his role modeling that helped me choose a husband. But in the rare quiet moments I sometimes see in my father's wonderful, familiar face, an uncertainty, a loss. Loving God, these days are wonderful and filled with excitement as we prepare for my wedding. One day, in your loving embrace, may all the wounds in his heart be healed. I want him to know you and to know your love for him. I pray for him because I want what is best for him. I want to forgive him and know the peace of letting go of those hurts - or at least the peace of not letting them continue to hurt me. ![]() Please let that forgivenss touch my heart as well. I don't want to spend the rest of my life resenting my father, so I turn to you to hold him up to you. I feel so sad, and at times I feel so angry, so cheated, because I couldn't have a good relationship with him. You know how much he suffered and you alone fully know how much was wounded and broken in him. God of Love, I come before you to pray for my father. Until then, I entrust him to your love and ask you to let him look out for me and to assist me to stay on the path to you. I pray that he has enjoyed your embrace and that the relationship he and I have now might someday be renewed with you in heaven. I thank you for what he left me as gifts of love and faith. Was such a blessing to me while he was still with us. Please take care of him now and be generous with him as you prepare him for the rewards of eternal life you have prepared for him.įather of Life, I thank you for my father. He was such a good teacher and mentor, such a wonderful example of how to live a life of faith. Along with my mother, through the marvel of your creation, my father gave me the gift of life itself. Thank you.ĭear God, the Father of us all, I thank you for my father. Help me to love my child at this most unloveable part of her/his life just as you love me when I am my most flawed self. Open my heart to this new stage of fatherhood. I ask for patience, an open heart and an ability to remember that the eyeroll or scoff that comes my way is really my own dear child's fumbling attempt to grow up. Give me wisdom to remember that this is a normal part of maturity and the development of independence. Am I teaching my children to separate anger from discipline or am I just exploding in frustration? Teach me to be faithful to my role of setting boundaries that will help my child grow, but with a greater love and patience. ![]() Now yelling seems to be our mutual common language. He probably did it much better than I can seem to manage. Where is that loving child Jesus? You had a wonderful earthly father in St. What in the world happened to my dear child? Some days he/she is mouthy and flip. Always such a dear and loving child, compassionate and caring. You know how deeply in my heart I carry this child, a child I have loved for so long. Now what, Jesus? Once again I have been dismissed by my own child who looks at me as if I am a stranger and an idiot besides. Click on the link below to find a prayer.įor My Father, As I Prepare for My Weddingįor a Father Who is Carrying Lots of Burdensįor a Father Who is Separated or Divorced From My Motherįor a husband who is difficult to live withįor a husband who is ill or declining in health ![]()
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