One: Our relationships with our fathers are complicated.
All: For some of us, our father's love is like God's love—
too deep, too long, too wide, too strong to measure.
One: Some of our dads are here; some were never here.
All: For some of us, God's love fills in the empty spaces
our fathers left behind.
One: All of us are shaped
by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.
All: On this day when we remember
what it means to have a father or be a father,
we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities.
We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture
the fathers among us
so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do. Amen.
— posted on the website of the Pleasant View United Methodist Church
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