In Search of Abraham: Prayer for Reparenting Ourselves on Father’s Day

whether we have smashed the idols

or are gone
going
out
of our father’s house

never a home
 

if we are
curious

planting

or

searching

however we show up or do not show up on this fateful day
 

may we will ourselves to go forth and choose our own fates

honor the children unbecoming adults

so they can become children again

and may we surrender to our burdens

embracing hard-won truths

over the allure

of false images

and may the freedom of our choices

rooted in the grace of Divine Love

give us and our generations

holy disturbance

and everlasting peace

for the sake of the child in us and all children beyond us.

forever in our names.

Amen.