A fathers prayer

O god, help me to be true to the great privilege and the great responsibility you have given me. Help me to be an example and a friend to my children, and a real partner to my wife. Don't let me get so busy with work and with outside things, that I am almost a stranger in my own home, and that I take no interest in household things. Don't let me take all that is done for me for granted, and help me to keep love alive within the home. Keep me from habits which make the work of the home harder, and from ways which irritate and annoy, or which get on the nerves of those who live with me. Give me health and strength and work to do, to earn a living for those who depend on me and whom I love so much; but help me remember that love is always more important than money. This I ask for your love's sake. Amen. 

The above prayer was given to by my mother. I am so glad for godly influences in my life