Oh Heavenly Father,
You are the compassionate one, my Rock, and my Savior.
You don’t change like shifting shadows, and every good and perfect gift comes down from You, oh Father of Light.
Today is Father’s Day. I feel anxiety and anger toward my estranged child and I feel hurt that we won’t be connected today. I stand here connected in a long chain of imperfect fathers from Adam, Noah, and Abraham through my grandfather and father.
I feel helpless to say or do the right thing for my children. I want to lift my eyes to the heavens and see my help coming from You, the Maker of heaven and earth, but my head is heavy with worry and shame.
I feel hopeless that anything will ever change between us. I feel hopeless that my beloved stranger will contact me today. Hope seems microscopic in this moment. I don’t know if it is the overwhelming size of a star just far away in another galaxy, or a speck of dust so small I can’t possibly hold it between two fingers. So instead, will You be my hope, Abba, Father?
In this moment, I kneel before You, Father, the One from whom every family in heaven and on earth receives its name. Will You strengthen my faith with power out of Your glorious riches? Will You allow Your beloved Son to dwell in my heart through faith?
Please root and establish the children You entrusted to me in Your love. Help them—and me—grasp how wide and long and high and deep is Your everlasting love.
Today is Father’s Day. So, Heavenly Father, Happy Father’s Day.
Amen