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6/17/2012 3:08:46 PM EST
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Fathers'Day Thought
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Today all over the country families are honoring fathers. The following poem (prayer) calls on fathers to live a life that deserves the honor.
“Dear God, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they say, and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting the, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I want them to be to me. Give me the courage to confess my sins against my children and to ask their forgiveness when I know that I have wronged them.
May I not hurt the feelings of my children. Forbid that I should laugh at their mistakes or ridicule them as punishment. Let me not tempt them to lie or steal. Guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness.
Blind me to the little errors of my children, and help me to see good things that they do. Give me a ready word for honest praise when they do right.
Help me to grow up with my children, to treat them as children and not as adults. Let me not judge them according to the standards of adult behavior. Do not allow me to rob them of the opportunity to wait upon themselves, to think, to choose, and to make decisions.
Forbid that I should ever punish them for my own selfish satisfaction. May I grant them all their wishes that are reasonable and have the courage always to withhold a privilege that I know will harm them.
Make me so fair and just, so considerate and compassionate to my children, that they will have a genuine esteem for me. Make me worthy of being loved and imitated by my children.”
It’s just a thought, and my own opinion; but what a great world this could be if fathers everywhere lived this out each and every day.
Happy Fathers’ Day!
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 | | This is beautiful Ron! Kinda tugged at my "heart strings" thinking of my own father. Thanks for sharing. |
| | |  | | good thoughts Ron I think that is what a Father should be Shring your thoughts on the blog with your IBO profile link as well Go IBO! |
| | |  | | Nice! thanks for sharing Ron |
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