For twenty years the first Tuesday of September has been a first day of school for our household.
Though I have smiled broadly, while passing back to school supplies in stores, we do still have a daughter in part time studies, as well as myself and two daughters going back to school as a workplace.
So, we pray:
God, who oversees all, and is in all,
Thank-you for the freedom and ability to learn, whether it is to learn how to greet a person or how to perform the most challenging mathematically problem.
Thank-you for the transportation to get to school, whether it is a sidewalk, a car pool parent, or a faithful bus driver.
Thank-you for the buildings, the infrastructure where we can learn, whether a centuries-old university, a classroom in a portable, or the dining room table.
Thank-you for water fountains from which to drink, bathrooms cleaned by humble hands and entrances that are monitored for safety.
Thank-you for those who teach, whether the one called teacher, coach, EA or student.
Thank-you for those who oversee learning, whether they be administration, a board of education or the administrative assistants (who really run the schools).
Thank-you for peers, whether they show us how to live, or how not to.
Thank-you for sports, art, music, drama, automotive and woodworking, and how they bring balance to our lives, both in and after school.
Lord,
may we rely on you when we are successful and struggling.
may we seek to make our world, our neighbourhood and our classrooms better places.
may you guide us to look out for each other, to protect each other, to love each other, as you love us.
May we work hard, play hard and love hard … all year long.
Amen
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