A Prayer to a Good Father

Dear Father in Heaven, That's a strange concept to me. A heavenly father. Who are you, and how can you love me like a father loves his child when there are 7.5 billion people in the world today? People you want as your children? You require holiness, but I am so unholy. You created me, yet I complain about this creation. (Why did you design bodies to change with age???) You have compassion and patience with me, even though I fail the same faith tests repeatedly. You are probably annoyed with my whining and entitlement, yet you don't lose your temper or say things you shouldn't. You don't work too much or fall asleep in your chair or forget birthdays or feel helpless when I'm despairing. (I don't know if earthly fathers do those things, but I've heard that some do.) This is why Father's Day is hard, why the concept of a Heavenly Father is hard: I don't know what good fathering feels like. But I know what love feels like. I know what th