A prayer I have written from scripture

When God gathers his people together, he calls them to his mercy. When his priest Zachary offered daily incense to the Lord, God announced to him a son in his old age, who would proclaim the coming of the Savior Jesus Christ. Through Gabriel, God promised his priest Zachary that in the spirit and power of Elias, the hearts of fathers will turn to their children, and the incredulous will turn to the wisdom of the just.

The true light enlightens every man who comes into the world. To those who receive Jesus Christ, they receive the power of becoming sons of God, who believe in his name. Jesus promised that we will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man. Jesus also said, Let not your heart be troubled: You believe in God, believe also in me.

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I wrote this prayer as more of a meditation, rather than phrased as a petition to God, or offering to God worship.

This is because I think often about the struggles of fathers in this modern society with so much pain and distortion of human goodness, and so I thought of in a way "sampling" from the Gospel, and a few words from the Old Testament, a reminder of the holy relationship between fathers and sons. In this prayer I tried to summarize the continuity and gift of father and son relationship, first in the announcement of the birth of St. John the Baptist where Gabriel in the own words of God emphasized that the hearts of fathers must be turned to their children. Likewise Jesus himself speaks of the shared heritage of the father-child relationship that belief in Jesus entitles the faithful to. So my thinking in writing this prayer was that it would be a meditative reminder to fathers (and their children) about their essential ongoing role and share in salvation and faith history.