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Power in Prayer
Sunday, 26 October 2008
Prayer for Students
Topic: Children
Father of Light and Wisdom,
thank you for giving me
a mind that can know
and a heart that can love.
Help me to keep learning every day of my life--
no matter what the subject may be.
Let me be convinced that all knowledge leads to you
and let me know how to find you and love you
in all the things you have made.
Encourage me when the studies are difficult
and when I am tempted to give up
Enlighten me when my brain is slow
and help me to grasp the truth held out to me.
Grant me the grace to put my knowledge to use
in building the kingdom of God on earth
so that I may enter the kingdom of God in heaven.
Amen. Source: The Rock of Inspiration
Posted by kupaakani
at 9:16 PM HDT
Updated: Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:13 PM HST
Parents Prayer for Their Children
Topic: Children
O Lord, omnipotent Father, we give you thanks for having given us children. They are our joy, and we accept with serenity the worries, fears, and labors which bring us pain. Help us to love them sincerely. Through us you gave life to them; from eternity you knew them and loved them. Give us the wisdom to guide them, patience to teach them, vigilance to accustom them to the good through our example.
Support our love so that we may receive them back when they have strayed and make them good. It is often so difficult to understand them, to be as they would want us to be, to help them go on their way. Grant that they may always see our home as a haven in their time of need. Teach us and help us, O good Father, through the merits of Jesus, your Son and our Lord.
Amen. Source: St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Picayune, MS
Posted by kupaakani
at 8:22 PM HDT
Updated: Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:14 PM HST
Prayer for Young People
Topic: Children
O God, we pray and beseech you
to guide and protect young people
from the dangers that are ever present in our world today.
Be with them, as they experience both sickness and health,
sorrow and joy,
loneliness and friendship,
success and failure.
Gracious God,
give to them the courage and strength
to make the right decisions
as they journey through life.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit,
may they come to know and experience your loving care.
We make this prayer through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Source: Adapted from a prayer from St. Mary's Catholic Parish, Papakura, New Zealand
Posted by kupaakani
at 7:53 PM HDT
Updated: Sunday, 4 January 2009 10:14 PM HST
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Prayer for a Child's Birthday
Topic: Children
Prayer for a Child's Birthday
With thanksgiving and love that you have been given to be a part of our heart and of our family, we celebrate this day of your birth, beautiful child, delightful spirit.
May you have a year full of joy and may your prodigious talents, like arrows, find their true mark through a long life in this world. - Daphne Rose Kingma  Appropriate for many faiths source: True Love (Conari Press), © 1991 by Daphne Rose Kingma. Reprinted with permission of the author.
Posted by kupaakani
at 7:48 PM HDT
Saturday, 8 March 2008
Prayer for a Baby Who Died
Topic: Children
Prayer for a Baby Who Died
She was so small,
so beautiful,
so full of hope and promise.
What a blessing she has been
to all of us who knew her
those few short months.
She taught us to love,
to hope beyond expectation,
to trust in that which is unseen.
She drew us together
in our anxiety,
our moments of despairing and hopelessness,
as well as in our joys and delight,
and in her every breath.
Her life ended prematurely;
just so had she been born.
Too soon she died.
We wept.
The tears continue.
We hugged
and held one another.
The pain will always linger.
Our hearts emptier
for her absence
and the unfulfilled dreams
she promised.
But the love she brought
into our lives will live forever.
Thank you for giving her to us.
Thank you for the blessing
that she will always be.
Thank you for the love we
would never have known,
but for her
and her brief days with us.
Thank you for _____,
our blessed child of grace.
Amen.
- Vienna Cobb Anderson Christian, appropriate for many faiths source: Adapted from "Prayers of Our Hearts" © 1991 Vienna Cobb Anderson. Reprinted with permission of the author. |
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Posted by kupaakani
at 11:00 PM HST
Updated: Saturday, 8 March 2008 10:03 PM HST
Sunday, 2 March 2008
The Gift of a Child
Topic: Children
The Gift of a Child
Dear God, I thank You for the gift of this child to raise, this life to share, this mind to help mold, this body to nurture, and this spirit to enrich. Let me never betray this child’s trust, dampen this child’s hope, or discourage this child’s dreams. Help me, dear God, to help this precious child become all you mean him to be. Let your grace and love fall on him like gentle breezes and give him inner strength and peace and patience for the journey ahead. - Marian Wright Edelman Christian, appropriate for many faiths source: “Guide My Feet” (Beacon Press) © 1995 Marian Wright Edelman
Posted by kupaakani
at 8:36 PM HST
Saturday, 1 March 2008
The Greatest Parent
Topic: Children
The Greatest Parent
It seems, dear God, that my children are growing
too quickly up and away from me.
I don't know what to say to them anymore.
They are no longer the little girls I used to know.
Help me to learn to trust their judgment, and to entrust their safety to You,
The Greatest Parent of all. - Beliefnet member RevVic Appropriate for many faiths
Posted by kupaakani
at 7:56 PM HST
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Prayer for Children
Topic: Children
Prayer for Children
Blessed God, you have created life to begin with childhood, a time of innocence, laughter, and exploration. Bless, we beseech you, the children of this world. Grant unto them the nurture they need for strong physical growth, keen minds, balanced emotions, and a holy spiritual life. Send unto them teachers to inspire an inquiring and discerning heart, to enable curiosity toward their surroundings, and a knowledge of this global village. Bless them with love, hope, and vision, and keep them ever in your unfailing compassion and protection. Amen. - Vienna Cobb Anderson Appropriate for many faiths source: Adapted from "Prayers of Our Hearts" © 1991 Vienna Cobb Anderson. Reprinted with permission of the author.
Posted by kupaakani
at 5:07 AM HST
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Prayer for a Child's Confirmation
Topic: Children
Prayer for a Child's Confirmation
Creator Spirit, strengthen this child with your gifts of grace, to love and serve as a disciple of Christ. Grant that s/he may grow into the fullness of the stature of Christ. Fill her/him with the joy of your presence. Increase in her/him the fruit of your Spirit: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of love, patience and gentleness, the spirit of wonder and true holiness. - Beliefnet member Resonance Christian
Posted by kupaakani
at 8:43 PM HST
Prayer for My Child's Independence
Topic: Children
Prayer for My Child's Independence
Lord help me not to do for my children
what they can do for themselves
Help me not to give them
what they can earn for themselves
Help me not to tell them
what they can look up for themselves.
Help me to help my children stand on
their own two feet and to grow into
responsible, disciplined adults.
- Marian Wright Edelman Christian, appropriate for many faiths source: Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright © 1995 Marian Wright Edelman |
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Posted by kupaakani
at 8:38 PM HST
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