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...we should love each other, because love comes from God. The person who loves has become God's child and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:7-8
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Prayer for Parents
Make me a better parent.
Teach me to understand my children,
to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their
questions kindly.
Keep me from interrupting them,
talking back to them and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to
them as I would have them be to me. Give me the courage to confess my
sins against my children and to ask of them forgiveness when I know
that I have done them wrong.
May not I vainly hurt the feelings of my children. Forbid that I should
laugh at their mistakes or resort to shame and ridicule as punishment.
Let me not tempt my child to lie and steal. So guide me hour by hour
that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces
happiness.
Reduce, I pray, the meanness in me.
May I cease to nag; and when I am out of sorts, help me, O Lord, to hold
my tongue. Blind me to the little errors of my children, and help me to
see the good things that they do.
Give me a ready word to honest praise.
Help me to grow up with my children,
to treat them as those of their own age, but let me not expect of them
the judgments and conventions of adults.
Allow me not to rob them of the opportunity to wait upon themselves, to
think, to choose and to make decisions. Forbid that I should ever
punish them for my selfish satisfaction.
May I grant them all their wishes that are reasonable and have the
courage always to withhold a privilege which I know will do them harm.
Make me so fair and just, so considerate and companionable to my
children that they will have a genuine esteem for me. Fit me to be
loved and imitated by my children.
Amen
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Jesus, friend of little children,
Be a friend to me,
Take my hand and ever keep me
Close to Thee.
Teach me how to grow in goodness,
Daily as I grow:
Thou has been a child, and surely
Thou dost know.
Never leave me, nor forsake me;
Ever be my friend;
For I need Thee,from life's dawning
To its end.
--Walter J. Mathams (1853-1931)
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