A Father’s Prayer

O God, help me to be true to the great privilege and the great responsibility which you have given me. Help me to be an example and friend to my children, and a real partner to my wife. Don’t let me get so busy with work and with outside things that I am almost a stranger in my own house, and that I take no interest in household things. Don’t let me take all that is done for me for granted, and help me to keep love alive within the home. Keep me from habits which make the work of the harder, and from ways which irritate and annoy, or which get on the nerves of those who live with me. Give me health and strength and work to do, to earn a living for hose who depend on me and whom I love so much; but help me to remember that live is always more important than money. O, God, You have given me the name of father; You have given me Your won name; help me to be true to it. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.