Fatherhood is Prayer

The closest thing I can compare fatherhood with is the vocation of priesthood. You don't stop ministering to your parishioners even when you're eating your meal. Priests pray for the people too and officiate mass for them to link collectively with the Divine.

That's what fathers do at home or otherwise.

It's more like being a police officer who doesn't stop arresting pickpocketers on his or her way home from his shift at the station. It's also more than being a soldier who does not rest from responding to calls of duty even in the middle of a vacation.

One of the essential elements of Fatherhood is prayer, being the link to the Divine.

Filipinos say, the father is the "haligi" (pillar) of the home. Well, I say such pillar will crumble without prayer.

Several times I have "crumbled" into prayer, only to find strength spring up from the "ashes" of my surrender. Fathers need to crumble in prayer regularly in order to regain strength and start a new day afresh.

My heart goes out to fathers out there who have ran out of answers. It feels awful and humiliating. Fathers are supposed to be problem solvers.

There's a great resource of answers in prayer.