Daddy was the man of the house…
not just the adult male
but the male among the six of us.
And he was a wonder. He had left
in 1942 to go overseas, a second lieutenant.
He came back and was discharged
a lieutenant colonel. As we grew up
There wasn’t much
I realized he couldn’t do.
He took my first watch. a Timex, apart
and gave up getting the parts back in.
He couldn’t keep a hula-hoop from falling down,
and he could not get stink bait to stay on a fish-hook.
Sure, he couldn’t do EVERYTHING…just almost.
But we need not seek someone
who can do nearly everything.
We can do better. We have a Higher Power
without three tiny inabilities,
and if we mean it when we say,
“God, I offer myself to Thee –
to build with me and to do with me
as Thou wilt.
Relieve me of the bondage of self,
that I may better do Thy will.
Take away my difficulties,
that victory over them
may bear witness to those I would help
of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.”
then we can trust, it will be fixed!