I can relate to your situation but I was the one who did the "not speaking to my dad" and regret every moment I missed with him. Luckily we have been reunited and I can't thank god enough for giving me the guidance of communication. I now have an extremely close relationship with my dad and treasure every second. It was a shame at what brought us apart, but I cannot dwell over what has been lost, but look forward to what we have. I will pray for your daughter to recognize what she is missing out on. There is nothing like having a daddy, and she will realize it! You should in deed, go out and purchase yourself a new bible and start getting back on track. Keep up your praying, continue with your faith, have hope and believe in our heavenly father. He is right by your side. We are all here for you. Stay strong. God Bless
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O Holy Family of Nazareth, community of love of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, model and ideal of every Christian family, to you we entrust our families. Open the heart of every family to the faith, to welcoming the Word of God, to Christian witness, so that it becomes a source of new and holy vocations. Touch the hearts of parents, so that with prompt charity, wise care, and loving devotion they be for their sons and daughters sure guides towards spiritual and eternal values. Stir up the hearts of young people a right conscience and a free will, so that growing in "wisdom, age and grace," they might welcome generously the gift of a Divine vocation. Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that all of us, contemplating and imitating the assiduous prayer, generous obedience, dignified poverty and virginal purity lived out in your midst, might set about fulfilling the will of God and accompanying with far-sighted sensitivity those among us who are called to follow more closely the Lord Jesus, who "has given Himself for us" (cf. Gal 2:20).
Amen! |