Prayer For Our Children

 Prayer For Our Children

Amy Carmichael

Father, hear us, we are praying,

Hear the words our hearts are saying,

We are praying for our children -

Keep them from the powers of evil,

From the secret hidden peril,

Father, hear us for our children -

From the whirlpool that would suck them,

From the treacherous quicksand pluck them,

Father, hear us for our children -

From the worldlings hollow gladness,

From the sting of faithless sadness,

Father, Father, keep our children -

Through life's troubled waters steer them,

Through life's bitter battle cheer them,

Father, Father, be Thou near them -

Read the language of our longing,

Read the wordless pleadings thronging,

Holy Father, for our children -

And wherever they may bide,

Lead them home at eventide.