Are You Like Your Father?

Am I like my father?
did he help or fail?
was he wise or foolish,
strong or weak and frail?

Lazy, or hard-working,
firm, but gentle too,
honest or deceitful,
struggling, but true.

Did he know a Father
who would always care?
Did he lead me to Him,
so His name I’d bear?

As I’ve been adopted
to God’s family,
more like this good Father
I now want to be!

Tune: 65 65 65 65 eg Quietude by H Green, tune of ‘Speak, Lord, in the stillness’