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Build me a son ---- Happy Father's Day!

At our church's youth group Roots, we have Care Sunday, which is the first Sunday of every month. We organize activities to show love and care to everyone in Roots. Sometimes, we have Bible story acting. John has been doing a great job in leadership recently, in organizing acitivities and acting.

He's finally made up his mind and he will be baptized in August in the lake! What a great news from God!

I am very proud of him!

“Build me a son, O Lord,

who will be strong enough to know when he is weak,

and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid;

one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat,

and humble and gentle in victory.



Build me a son

whose wishes will not take the place of deeds;

a son who will know Thee…… and that

to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.



Lead him, I pray,

not in the path of ease and comfort,

but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge.

Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm;

here let him learn compassion for those that fail.

Build me a son

whose heart will be clear,

whose goal will be high,

a son who will master himself

before he seeks to master other men;

one who will reach into the future,

yet never forget the past.



And after all these things are his,

add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor,

so that he may always be serious,

yet never take himself too seriously.



Give him humility,

so that he may always remember

the simplicity of true greatness,

the open mind of true wisdom

and the meekness of true strength.



Then, I, his father will dare to

whisper, “I have not lived in vain.’”


                                                                                                     by General Douglas MacArthur