Prayer For Children
We pray for the children at play,
Playing in a spacious schoolyard in Connecticut,
Playing in a park littered with debris in Baltimore,
Playing in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon,
Playing in a forest in the Congo,
Playing in a dump in El Salvador,
Playing as children will play.
We pray for the children who cannot play,
Children at work making bricks in India,
Children picking onions in Texas,
Children weak from hunger in the Sudan,
Children injured in bombings in Barcelona,
Children on the move, fleeing from Myanmar,
Children sick from unclean water in Uganda,
Children who suffer abuse and violence anywhere.
We pray for children at play
And we pray for children who cannot play,
We pray for children at school and
For children who cannot attend school,
We pray for children who are healthy,
And for children who are ill and injured,
Abused and forgotten.
All children are beloved by God
And all children created in God’s image.
May we recognize this and
Care for them as our own. AMEN.
- Jane Deren, PhD
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