heard this in a message a couple of weeks ago. has stuck in my heart... A Prayer for the Children by Ina J. Hughes, she is an American school teacher We pray for the Children who sneak popsicles before supper, who erase holes in math workbooks, who can never find their shoes. And we pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire, who cant bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers, who never counted potatoes, who are born in places where we wouldnt be caught dead, who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world. We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money. And we pray for those who never get dessert, who have no safety blanket to drag behind them, who watch their parents watch them die, who cant find any bread to steal, who dont have any rooms to clean up, whose pictures arent on anybodys dresser, whose monsters are real. We pray for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the grocery store & pick at their food, who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed, & never rinse out the tub, who get visits from the tooth fairy, who dont like to be kissed in front of the carpool, who squirm in church or temple and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us cry. And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who have never seen a dentist, who arent spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry & cry themselves to sleep, who live and move, but have no being. We pray for children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who dont get a second chance. For those we smother… and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:22:24 +0000
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