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We Pray For the Children
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We pray for the Children
who sneak a popsicle 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 can't bound down the street
in a new pair of sneakers,
who never "counted potatoes,"
who are born in places
where we wouldn't be caught dead,
who never go to the circus
who live in a 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 safe blanket
to drag behind them,
who watch their parents
watch them die,
who can't find any bread to steal,
who don't have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser,
whose monsters are real.

We pray for children
who spend all their allowance before Tuesday,
who throw tantrums in the grocery store
and pick at their food,
who like ghost stories,
who shove dirty clothes under the bed
who never rinse out the tub,
who get visits from the tooth fairy,
who don't 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 aren't spoiled by anybody,
who go to bed hungry
and 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,
who we never give up on
and for those who don't get a second chance.
For those we smother and . . .
For those who will grab the hand
of anybody kind enough to offer it.

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" In Memory of........

Natalie brooks, student age 12
paige Ann Herring, student age 12
Stephanie Johnson, student age 12
brittany R. Varner, student age 11
Shannon Wright, Teacher age 32

This is in memory of the children and teacher killed in the shooting on Tuesday, March 24, 1998, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. please send this to everyone you know. If this gets to the town of Jonesboro, I'm sure they will be grateful to know that we all care.

Thanks to Barb Vogal - kindergarten teacher good friend."

I received this as an email from my friend Kid at webtv.net. There must have been hundreds of email addresses on all the forwards before I got to the prayer itself. It looks like the original message was written by Rvandrell@aol.com. I agree with her, the memory of the children and teacher should live! They should never be forgotten!

Unfortunately this applies to more and more towns and schools as time goes on. We pray for the children and familes, schools and towns of all the terrible school shootings that have occured in our country. We pray that this horrible trend with reverse itself and that God will watch over our countries' children. --- Beth

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