- Let us pray
for children who put chocolate fingers everywhere,
who like to be tickled, who stomp in puddles and ruin their new
pants, who sneak popsicles before supper, and can never find
their shoes.
- And we
pray for those who have no shoes, who stare at
photographers from behind barbed wire, who never
"count potatoes", who are born in places we wouldn't be
caught dead in, who never go to the circus, who live in an
x-rated world.
- Lord in
your mercy, Hear our prayer.
dandelions, who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish, who hug
us in a hurry and forget their lunch money, who cover with
band-aids and sing off-key, who squeeze toothpaste all over the
sink, who slurp their soup.
- And we
pray for those who never get soup, who have no safe
blankets to drag behind them, who watch their parents die,
who can't find any bread to steal, have no rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren't on anybody's dresser, and who's monsters
are real.
- Lord
in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
who throw temper tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their
food, who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed,
and 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
and scream in the phone, whose tears we sometimes laugh at and
whose smiles can make us cry.
- And we
pray for those who have no allowance, 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, For those 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 anyone kind enough to offer it.
Lord in
Thy Mercy, Hear our prayer.
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