A Father Prayer by General Douglas MacArthur (May 1952)

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Subject: A Father Prayer by General Douglas MacArthur (May 1952)

A Father Prayer by General Douglas MacArthur (May 1952)

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee ?and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.

Lead him I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.

Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, have not lived in vain.

Glossary

Defeat (n) Overthrow, Downfall.

Backbone(n) spine, strength.

to stand up

humility (n) humbleness, modesty.

meekness (n) humbleness, quietness, humility.

Vain (adj.) Unsuccessful, Unproductive, Futile, Worthless.

A translation by u khin mg gyi (retired SLRD)

Zawgyi- one typing by Sanjay.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A good soldier’s prayer

ဖခတင္စ္ဦး၏ဆုေတာင္း

အို၊အရွသင္ခင္၊ကၽြန္ုပ္အတြက္သားတစ္ေယာက္ကို ေမြးဖြားေပးေတာ္မုူပါ။

သူဟာအားနည္းေနတဲ.အခ်ိန္မွာအရွိအတိုင္းသိျမဖင္ို.ၾကံ့ခိုရင္မယ္။

ေၾကာ္ရကြံ့ျခင္းကိုရဆင္ိုဖင္ို.သတၱိရွိရမယ္။

ရိုးသားစြာရွ ုံနိမ္.တဲ.အခါခါးမညႊတ္ဘဲမာနထားရမယ္္။

အနိုရင္တဲ.အခါမွနွိမ္.ခ်တဲ.စိတ္နဲ.သိမ္ေမြ.ရပါမယ္။

ကၽြနု္ပ္အတြက္သားတစ္ေယာက္ကိုေမြးဖြားေပးေတာ္မူပါ။

သူမ်က္နွာမူရမယ္ဘယ္ကိုေက်ာေပးမထားပါေစနွင္.၊

သကင္ိုသိေနတဲ.အျပမင္ိမိကိုယ္မိမိသိျခင္းဟာအသိပညာရဲ.အုတ္ျမစ္ျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာသိသူျဖ္ရစမယ္။

လြယ္ကူျပီးသက္ေသာင္.သက္သာရွိမယ္.လမ္းကိုမညႊန္ဘဲအခက္အခဲေတြနဲ.စိန္ေခၚမွုေတြေၾကာင္.ဖိအားေတြတြန္းတိုက္မွုေတြရွိတဲ.လမ္းကိုညႊန္ျေပပးပါအရွင္။

အဲဒီေတာ.မွမုန္တိုင္းထဲမွာမတ္မ္ရတပ္နိုဖင္ို.နဲ.က်ရွံုးသူေတြေအပၚသနားကရုဏာထားတက္ဖုိ.ကိုသူသင္ယူနိုပင္ါမယ္။

ကၽြနု္ပ္အတြက္သားေယာက္ကိုေမြးဖြားေပးေတာ္မူပါ။ သူဟာသ္ရနွင္းတဲ.နွလံုးသားရွိျပီးရည္မွန္းခ်က္လည္းျမင္.မားရပါမယ္။

တစ္ပါးသူကိုဆရာလုပ္နိုဖင္ို.သူကိုယ္တိုကင္တတ္ကၽြမ္းထားရမယ္ဆိုတာသိသူျဖ္ရစပါမယ္။

ရယ္ေမာပစ္တတ္ျပီးငိုရမွာကိုလည္းေမ.မထားတတ္သူျဖ္ရစမယ္။

အနာဂတ္ကိုရွုျမနင္ိုင္ျပီးအတိတ္ကိုဘယ္ေသာအခါမွေမမ.သူျဖ္ရစပါမယ္။

အဲဒါေတြအားလံုးကိုရျပီးရင္ေတာ.ဟာသကိုေကာင္းေကာင္းခံစားတတ္လိုေအလးအနက္လည္းထားတ္ရတမယ္။

ဒါေပမယ.္သူကိုယ္သူေတာ.သိပ္ျပီးေလးေလးနက္နက္ၾကီးမထားေစလိုပါ။

ၾကီးျမတ္မွ ုအမွ္ရနဲ့ရုိးစင္းမွ ုပညာအမွ္ရနဲ့ပြင္.လင္းတဲ.စိတ္ထားနဲ.အအင္ားအမွ္ရနဲ.သိမ္.ေမြ.မွုေတြကိုသူအျမဲအမွေ္ရတစဖို.အတြက္နိွမ္.ခ်တတ္တဲ.စိတ္ထားကိုသူ.အားေပးသနားေတာ္မူပါ။

အဲဒီေနာက္ေတာ.သူ.ဖခင္ျဖစ္သူကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ိ ုးဟာအကၽြနု္ပ္သည္အခ်ည္းနွီးအသ္ရကွခင္ဲ.သူတစ္ဦးမဟုတ္ခဲ.ပါဟုတိုးတိုးေလးေျပာ၀ံ့ပါတယ္အရွင္။

ဗိုလ္ခ်ုုုုုဳပ္ၾကီးေဒါက္ကလပ္မက္အာသာ

ေမလ၊(၁၉၅၂)ခုနွစ္

A translation by u khin mg gyi (retired SLRD).

Zawgyi- one typing by Sanjay.

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