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6/16/2025 — A Prayer for the Fathers of Ukraine

From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1208)

When I look at your heavens,
the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:3-4

It’s Father’s Day.
It’s hard to put all the thoughts in my head into words.
Today, I pray for all the fathers serving in the army to protect their children from the russian cruelty. It is love.
I pray for the fathers who have not seen their children in years because their families left the country in search of safety. It is a sacrifice.
I pray for the fathers who are waiting to hear from their children who went missing in action or are kept in russian prisons. It is hoping despite despair.
I pray for the fathers who care for their wounded children who suffered in this war. It is faithfulness.
I pray for the fathers who lost their families because of russian drone and missile strikes. It is incomprehensible.
I pray for the fathers who have the privilege of being with their children. It is a responsibility.
I pray for the children who lost their fathers because of the war. May they get to know God as their Father and find comfort in Him.

Dal Stanton

2 responses to “6/16/2025 — A Prayer for the Fathers of Ukraine”

  2. J.R.R Tolkien, veteran of WWI and WWII

    to his son Christopher

    “I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the millions parted, fretting, wasting in unprofitable days — quite apart from torture, pain, death, bereavement, injustice…

    All we do know, and that to a large extend by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success –in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in…

    And though we need all our natural human courage and guts (the vast sum of human courage and endurance is stupendous, isn’t it?) and all our religious faith to face the evil that may befall us (as it befalls others, if God wills) still we may pray and hope. I do.

    And you were so special a gift to me, in a time of sorrow and mental suffering, and your love, opening at once almost as soon as you were born, foretold to me, as it were in spoken words, that I am consoled ever by the certainty that there is no end to this.

    Probable under God that we shall meet again, ‘in hale and in unity’, before very long…”

    – 30 April 1944

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