A Father's Prayer

Dear God the giver of all good and perfect gifts.
Give me the strength to stand firm when the wind of adversity blows.
Give me the flexibility to be but not break.

Lock in the vault of my heart the mercy and compassion.
That you wish me to display not only toward my child, but also the
world.

place in my mind the wisdom to say no, and then nurse the positive and
not the negative.
Inscribe upon my soul the rules and direction in which i must
travel.

To become the father to my child.
Like the father that you are to me.

jackie compton