Lord, grant wisdom to protect from evil;
And love enough
to protect them from myself.
Grant me joy, to teach them overcoming;
And gentleness,
for them to love themselves.
Forgiveness, so they know,
Though sin affects us,
Grace can affect us more if we will grow.
Trust, so that
even when the world shakes,
They know the safest place is still Your hold.
And when they're grown and
All my flaws apparent,
And faced with the flawed nature of their own,
May the God who held me up
Through all of my life,
Be real enough to them to be their home.
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