Faith of My Father
By: Nancy Ewing
© 2001

This Father’s Day
My father will be
In the country where
His father was born.

He will visit the church
Where his father’s father
Was a priest
Of a line of priests.

And in the church
Of his father
And his father’s father
My father will pray

And alongside him
My brother will pray
And my brother’s child
In that ancient church.

Across the ocean
I will pray
with my father
the words of our savior.

The prayer said
By my father’s father
And generations past
And to come.