"It's All His Fault!" - A Nighttime Prayer
“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; the patient in spirit are better than the proud in spirit.” – Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NRSVUE)
Please Pray:
God, you are the only perfect Father there is. That doesn’t stop us from expecting perfection in our human fathers. We’ve given up the practice of learning to accommodate human imperfections and have abandoned even the pretense of accommodating them. We live in times where influencer dads give us endless images of perfect fathers to contrast with the ordinary, imperfect dads who live in our own homes. And still, as these imperfections grate on us, you tell us that the end of things is better than the beginning. Give us patience for our imperfect human fathers as they move, slowly and lurchingly, toward the ends you have purposed for their lives. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
