Having been orphaned at age eighteen months and knowing how it feels not to have parents to run to, for comfort and love. I want to share a prayer that touched my heart and was mailed to me from the children's home where I lived for twelve years. Someone once told me that children step on your feet when they're little and step on your heart when they're old. I like the scriptural statement better that reads "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."
* Who sneak Popsicles 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 an 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 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
* 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{m} 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.
Author unknown
Reference: Psalm 127: Verse 3 The Holy Bible…