Prayer for dads

Lord, You promised to deliver me from hidden traps. I forget how many snares are set in an ordinary week. The browser tab I should not have opened last night. The whispered office gossip that pulls me in. The shortcut on a tax form. The five-minute slip into self-pity that ruins an afternoon. Walk me through the field with my eyes open. I do not want to be foolish, and I do not want to be afraid. Just let me see the wire before my foot is in it. And when I do step in one — because I will — pull me out fast, before the small thing becomes the bigger thing it was always trying to be.

Amen.