A Father's Day Prayer
God, bless all the fathers in the world. Guide them to be good role models and loving to all their children. Help them to be a father like You were. Give them grace and patience to handle situations in a loving way.
Amen
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Fathers are the biggest source of strength for a child. The innocent eyes of a child perceive father as the all-powerful, most knowledgeable, truly affectionate man and the most important person in the family. After I was in my 20's, I came to realize he was a man trying to do his best, but he had human failings. For daughters, fathers are the first men they adore and fall in love with. While for sons their fathers are the strongest person they know and someone they aspire to emulate. My dad was looking forward to having sons. When they died, shortly after they were born, he was a changed man. I know he enjoyed having his grandsons. Although he loved his three girls. Even for the grownups fathers are someone whom they look up to for the most experienced and honest advice that is always in their best interest. I always looked to him for this. For this great figure in our life that we know as father - it becomes our utmost duty to pay our humblest tribute on the occasion of Father's Day.
Children blessed with a loving father should consider themselves fortunate. For, they have someone to take care of their needs and interests. Someone to stop them when they are diverting to a wrong path and guide them on a road to success and virtue. Which father always tried to do. Whether we thought he should or not. For many of us fathers have always been there to solve our innumerous problems. Fathers would never ever give the smallest hint to let us know how hard they work to take care of our needs and fulfill even the most whimsical of demands... We would especially enjoy how he would play with us some mornings (little did we know that he had worked until midnight the night before)), but as far as we knew, he would enjoy the fact that we would try to sneak in his room to wake him up to play, before chores needed to be done. For all their adorable scolding and affectionate punishments we all owe a big thanks to our Dads
Father's Day also brings with it the wonderful opportunity to apologize for all our rude and insensitive behavior. We as children often take the love and affection of our parents for granted and treat them with outright contempt. We need to apologize. We must feel grateful to have the presence of a loving father in our lives and do not disrespect the blessing God has given us. On Father's Day we must says “Sorry” to our Dad and seek their forgiveness for our wrong behavior.
We must make all efforts to celebrate Father's Day with our Dad, or remember him, if he's not with us. Children must especially strive to spend the day showing gratitude for all their support and love. We must pamper father's by spending the day in a manner he likes most. The idea is to show our affection and celebrate our appreciated fathers, not just on Father's Day but every single day of our lives.
