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Making Sense Out of Dollars

A Prayer For The Children

Joel Lerner
Posted 12/24/21

Tomorrow, children throughout our country will be getting many different kinds of gifts from parents, relatives and friends. Yet there are many youngsters who will not reap the benefits of these …

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Making Sense Out of Dollars

A Prayer For The Children

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Tomorrow, children throughout our country will be getting many different kinds of gifts from parents, relatives and friends. Yet there are many youngsters who will not reap the benefits of these joyous holiday times and so I dedicate (as I have done these past many years) a prayer for all children.

We pray for the children who stomp in puddles and ruin their new shoes, who eat candy before supper and who play and live in a clean upstanding environment. But we must also pray for those who have never run down a street in a new pair of shoes, who have no candy before supper because there may be no supper and who live in places that we would not be caught dead in and they will be.

We pray for the children who give us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions, who sleep with their dog, who forget to clean up their room and who watch their fathers shave.

But we must also pray for those who will never get dessert, who have no fathers to watch, who do not have any rooms to clean up and whose pictures are on milk cartons instead of on dresses.

We pray for the children who spend all their allowance by Tuesday, who pick at their food, who love ghost stories, and who do not like to be kissed in front of the school bus.

But we must also pray for those children whose nightmares occur in the daytime, whose monsters are real, who have no idea what an allowance is, who go to bed and wake up hungry, and who live and move and have no address.

And finally, we pray for those children who like to be carried and for those children who have to be carried, for those who will grab the hand of an adult and for those who find no hand to grasp.

For all these children, we pray today, for they are all so precious.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“Sometimes we are, so anxious to give our children what we didn’t have that we forget to give them what we did have.”

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