Here is an Ancestral Clearing prayer for fathers and children.
Great Father, Holy Mother, Divine Spirit, God, Source of All That Is, Infinite One – You are known by many names and You are One. We love You. Thank You for loving us. We ask You humbly, for ourselves and our ancestors and their relations throughout all time, space, dimension, realms, lives, lifetimes, and incarnations –
For the times we felt dominated, bullied, or belittled by our fathers, times their fathers dominated, bullied, or belittled them, and for all the feelings of overwhelm, inadequacy, insecurity, fear, and resentment any of us felt because of such domination. Please help us all to forgive each other and ourselves – for all of it, no matter what.
Please and thank You.
For any time we felt like we didn’t measure up to our father’s expectation of us – that we were not fast enough, not smart enough, not good enough, or felt like we were not enough in any other way; for times that fathers felt their own sense of not enoughness and projected their insecurities onto us – please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves.
Please and thank You.
For any time we grew up without a father, whether through willful or accidental abandonment; for the times our fathers were absent because they had to work, for the times they didn’t return from work and we never knew what happened – and all that followed in the lineage because of it. Please help us all forgive each other and ourselves for all that happened.
Please and thank You.
For the times our fathers went off to war, and what we felt and they felt having been wrenched apart; for the times fathers never returned from war; for the times father returned wounded physically, emotionally, or spiritually, and for all that followed on into the lineage because of it – please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves.
Please and thank You.
For the times our fathers worked themselves to the bone and it still wasn’t enough to provide for the family the way they wanted or needed; for the times fathers were jealous of our innocence, and we felt their frustration – please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves.
Please and thank You.
For any time fathers felt the weight of caring for children – for the times fathers were out of work and for the times they felt forced to take a job they didn’t want and felt it kept them from following their heart – and for how the children felt this from their fathers, all the guilt and shame the whole family felt as a result – please help us all forgive each other and forgive ourselves.
Please and thank You.
For any time the fathers favored one child over another and for all we made it mean about ourselves, each other, and our fathers; for the times our fathers didn’t encourage us to speak up for ourselves and for the times fathers didn’t feel safe to speak up for themselves – please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves.
Please and thank You.
Please help us to release one another and ourselves – for all that happened, whatever it was. Please and thank You. Help us love each other as You love us, now and forever.
Please and thank You.
Please and thank You.
Please and thank You.
Amen.
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