Touching Prayer-Possible Spoiler

[Avalon]

I thought the scene with MR and TY when TY shows the prayer MR's father had bought for her was very touching. It's interesting that the prayer is attributed to General MacArthur, a crusty old warhorse.

[aYsHuN]

Yes, I had also been thinking about that prayer... It was very touching, the way how MR and TY would read it every night. Now by any chance do you know the whole words to the prayer? =]

[aYsHuN]

I have been searching through the internet and i have comed across the prayer you were talking about.

This is "The Father's Prayer" by Gerneral Douglas MacArthur

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."