Prayer of a Child

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PRAYING

Praying

It doesn't have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try

to make them elaborate,

this isn't

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.

~ Mary Oliver ~

Place on thy Heart

"Place on thy heart

one drop of the Precious

Blood of Jesus

and

fear

nothing"

words of

Pope Pius IX

A CHILDREN'S PRAYER

Children's Prayers by Ina J. Hughs

A very special friend passed this on to me. I think it's beautiful so I thought I would share it.

We pray for the children who put chocolate fingers on everything,
who love to be tickled,
who stomp in puddles and ruin new pants,
who eat sweets before supper and who can never find their shoes in the morning.

And we also pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire,
who have never bound down the street in a new pair of shoes,
who never played "one potato, two potatoes," and who are born in places that we would not be caught dead in and they will be.

We pray for the children who give us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who sleep with their dog and who bury their goldfish,
who hug us so tightly and who forget their dinner money,
who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,
who watch their fathers shave, and who slurp their soup.

And we pray for those who will never get dessert,
who have no favourite blanket to drag around behind them,
who watch their fathers suffer,
who cannot find any bread to steal,
who do not have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures are on milk cartons instead of on dressers, and whose monsters are real.

We pray for the children who spend all their spends by Tuesday,
who pick at their food,
who love ghost stories,
who shove their dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse the bathtub,
who love visits from the Tooth Fairy, even after they find out who it really is,
who do not like to be kissed in front of the school bus and who squirm during services.

And we also pray for those children whose nightmares occur in the daytime,
who will eat anything,
who have never seen a dentist,
who are not spoiled by anyone,
who go to bed hungry and wake up hungry,
who live and move and have no address.

We pray for those children who like to be carried and for those children who have to be carried. We pray for those who give up and for those who never give up, for those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to offer it and for those who find no hand to grab. For all these children, we pray today, for they are all so precious.

Hope

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Beauty

beauty is often found between brokeness..

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord make us instruments

of your peace.

Where there is hatred

let us sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is discord, union;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkenss, light;

Where there is saddness, joy.

Grant that we may not

so much seek

To be consoled as to console;

To be understood

as to understand;

To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving

that we recieve;

It is in pardoning

that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are

born to eternal life.

Amen