Pause for Prayer: 6/15 THURSDAY

 For many folks, Fathers Day will be a bitter-sweet time...

So many ads, everywhere I turn,
so many ads for Fathers Day gifts
and that's got me praying, Lord:

- for folks like me whose dads have died
- for those who never knew their dad
- for kids whose dads abandoned them
- for sons and daughters hurt by dad
- for dads estranged by circumstance
- and for all who've sadly never known
        a father's love and care...

For all these folks, Lord,

Fathers Day's can be a hard day, a sad day:

a day of missing someone much beloved;

or grieving now a love that never was;

or musing on what might have,

could have, should have been,

would have been, if only...

So I'm praying, Lord,
for all who'll be, for one reason or another,
without their dads this weekend:

- help us summon our best memories
       and celebrate this time with grateful joy
- help us pardon the harm we've suffered
       and move beyond the hurt that haunts
- bring us to peace with how we feel
       and to your Father's loving arms...

 Amen.

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