Prayer for Father’s Day

God and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

you have gathered us as your own family,

happy to act as our father

and to have us call you father,

providing us with all we need

to live and thrive on earth.

This day we thank you for the blessing of fathers,

for all our own fathers have done for us

to rear us to take care of ourselves and our world,

to guide us into the paths of peace and righteousness,

to show us how to be both strong and gentle.

We pray for those men who are fathers

who find themselves unable or unwilling

to fulfill their roles as dad for their children.

We pray for new fathers,

learning to care for and enjoy their little ones,

experienced fathers who are learning

to let go of their children,

and for fathers whose unseen presence

still guides their adult children.

Bless, we ask, the memory of fathers

who have passed into your presence,

guide and sustain those whose fatherly work is not yet done,

and give us all the grace we need to build up

the children of generations who will come after us.

~Brummhart Publishing