Bending Angel

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Home
  • About
    • About Jack H. Emmott
    • About Bending Angel Publications
    • About Emmottville
  • BookShop
    • Schorre Christmas Cards
    • Bending Angels
    • Prayerful Passages
    • Prayerful Passages Companion Guide Book
    • Note Cards
  • In The News
  • Weekly Prayer
  • Contact

Prayer for Fathers Who Are Fishers of Men and the Women They Love – June 20, 2021

June 20, 2021 by Jack Emmott Leave a Comment

Don’t we all have iconic photographs which have etched in our hearts the way we remember our fathers?  The pictures capture not only the way our fathers looked on the outside to us.  They also reflect through the prism of a moment frozen in time the true essence of the children God made who became men and fathers of us.

My father died in 2015.  The best part of him dwells in the father I am.  I will never wade fish in the Laguna Madre or Topolobampo, Mexico like him.  Yet, I can be that same exemplary rock of faith, hope, love and care for my children and grandchildren as he was.

So, today I share with you this image of my dad, the fisherman who loved fishing more than anything else except me and my brothers and sister and, of course, my mother.

I learned more from Dad than just how to fish.  Dad showed me something that all great dads do for their children.  He showed me how to love Dorothy as my wife and mother of our children.  How to reel in, capture, love, caress and care for the woman who day in and day out is responsible for the kids when I am not with them.

God has spoken in Scripture of our fathers.

Psalm 32:7-7
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.

Proverbs 4:11-12
I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths.  When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.

Dear God, the Father of all creation,

Your Son was a fisher of men.

On this Father’s Day

I am proud to say

My father was a fisherman too.

He lived a life in service to You.

5,000 could have been fed

From the rod he cast over his head.

Yet, his greatest catch was his faith in You

And of Your love and what it can do.

God, please tell my dad I miss him so

And all the fishing trips we used to go.

Every son needs a father as him

Who wore sunglasses and a hat with a brim.

Thanks for my dad never being lost at sea

For sending him to Earth and a son like me.  Amen.

If you like this prayer, please share. 

If you want to purchase for yourself or a friend a copy of Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love or Prayerful Passages: Asking God’s Help in Reconciliation, Separation or Divorce, please click on here to go to Amazon. 

Jack H. Emmott is a Senior Counsel of Gray, Reed & McGraw, LLP, a 145-lawyer full-service firm in Houston, Dallas, and Waco, Texas, a Board-Certified Family Law and Master Credentialed Collaborative Law Professional Divorce Attorney, Mediator, Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker.  For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to the Bending Angel website.

Filed Under: Weekly Prayers Tagged With: 2021, Bending Angels, father's day prayer, Jack Emmott, Prayer for Fathers Who Are Fishers of Men and the Women They Love - June 20

Prayer in Thanks for Fatherhood – June 16, 2019

June 17, 2019 by Jack Emmott Leave a Comment

Lord, thanks for fatherhood.
You know what it is like to be a Father.
You bring all Your children to life and to us.
In prayer You guide fathers like me with Your light.
You embrace our children in Your arms.
Yet, You let them to be free to live and learn
In a world as tender, perilous, and beautiful
As the flight of a dove.

As a thirty-something year old father,
I cradled my infant son John in my arms.
I held my baby Catherine in my lap.
Ever since those moments of being a father
I have never questioned the purpose of my being.
As a father, I have had incredible joys.
Walls of worry.
Deep pride.
Struggles with hanging on and letting go.
Allowing Your will to overcome mine in raising them.
Gratefulness in knowing
That if I have failed in any aspect of fatherhood
You were there for them and for me.

Due to polio I could not lift my kids in the air,
Carry them on my shoulders.
Climb trees with them.
Hike in the woods with them.
Play sports with them.
But, thanks to You and Your example
I was able to do the best thing a father could do for John and Catherine.

Love.

Amen

If you like this prayer, please share.

If you want to purchase for yourself or a friend a copy of Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love or Prayerful Passages: Asking God’s Help in Reconciliation, Separation or Divorce, please click on here to go to Amazon.

Jack H. Emmott is a Senior Counsel of Gray, Reed & McGraw, LLP, a 145-lawyer full service firm in Houston, Dallas and Waco, Texas, a Board-Certified Family Law and Master Credentialed Collaborative Law Professional Divorce Attorney, Mediator, Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker. For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to the Bending Angel website.

Filed Under: Weekly Prayers Tagged With: Bending Angel, father's day prayer, Jack Emmott

Father’s Day Prayer – June 18, 2017

June 18, 2017 by Jack Emmott Leave a Comment

Jack, John, age 5, and Catherine, age 2. 1983.
God, the Father, blessed me with His Son, Jesus.
As a result I shall receive eternal life.
God, the Father, blessed me with John and Catherine.
Because of them, my son and daughter,
I have received eternal joy and everlasting love.

Lord, on this special day to honor those who have carried the cross of fatherhood I give thanks to You for my father and for his example of stewardship for me to follow.  As my Heavenly Father I give thanks to You for the gift of Your Son Jesus Christ. For in His birth, death and resurrection we as father and child will always be together in Your Eternal Love and Light.  Amen

If you like this prayer, please share.

 Jack H. Emmott is a Senior Counsel of Gray, Reed & McGraw, LLP, a 120 lawyer full service firm in Houston, Texas, a Board-Certified Family Law  and Master Credentialed Collaborative Law Professional Divorce Attorney, Mediator, Author, Entrepreneur and Inspirational Speaker.  For more information about Jack or his latest book, Bending Angels: Living Messengers of God’s Love, go to BendingAngel.com.

Filed Under: Weekly Prayers Tagged With: father's day prayer, Jack Emmott

About Jack H. Emmott

Jack H. Emmott

I am a polio survivor. The fact that I suffered paralysis at the age of six is, in some ways, unimportant. Bad things happen to everyone. Viewed differently...

Read more...

Weekly Prayer

Prayer for My Madras Shirt and Unfaded Memories – March 26, 2023

Last Friday was the 13th anniversary of my mother’s death. Amidst the views of Spring with blooming red buds, azaleas, plum trees, bluebonnets, and daffodils, I was awash wit

  • Read more...
  • Receive a weekly prayer via email
©2023 Bending Angel · Developed by Hero House Creative

Receive a Weekly Prayer Via Email
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.