> I'm doing my best now to turn where I should be turning anyway... to the only Father I ever had and ever will have. But I need prayer, because it's hard.
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> Pray for me to be able to forgive my father, which I never before felt I had to do.

By saying these things and asking these things, I think it's a pretty sure sign you're heading in the right direction. I will indeed pray for you and for these things.

> Pray for me to be able to heal emotionally quickly.

I will pray for this also, but I think there is one more thing to keep in mind: I think the best thing we can do with hardship and sadness is to figure out what we can learn from it. God has a way of taking the worst atrocities and ordeals and making them things that we can benefit from. Usually the benefits are in ways that don't even materialize until long afterward.

Nothing can undo or make right what was done sixteen years ago. Those wrongs are immutable. Forgivable, but immutable. But what those immutable wrongs of yesterday are now are opportunities to grow: to learn to trust God, to learn understanding and sensitivity and compassion, to forgive, and more.

I *will* pray for a swift emotional healing, but I think a better prayer, more in keeping with the way God works with people, is for productive and instructive emotional healing. The best advice I can give you is to learn from this what you can. By keeping an open heart to God's instruction, I think you will also find that the swiftest path to healing anyhow.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." -- Ecclesiastes 7:3

God bless you.