Melba's Jammin' wrote:

> A Prayer for Children
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I'm an atheist and don't pray, but if I did it would be for the children.

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Darryl L. Pierce >
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A Prayer for Children

We pray for children
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 can¹t bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers,
Who never ³counted potatoes,²
Who are born in places we wouldn¹t be caught dead in,
Who never saw a 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 security blanket to drag behind them,
Who watch their parents watch them die,
Who can¹t find any bread to steal,
Who don¹t have any rooms to clean up,
Whose pictures aren¹t on anybody¹s 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 their dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub,
Who get visits from the tooth fairy,
Who don¹t like to be kissed in front of the carpool,
Who squirm in church or temple and scream into 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 aren¹t spoiled by anybody,
Who got 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 be.
For those we never give up on, and
For those who never get a second chance.
For those we smother
And for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer it.

Sent to Dear Abby by Dena C. Young, Concord, NC. Given her by a friend;
author unknown. Printed in Dear Abby, June 4, 1995.
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-Barb
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"If you're ever in a jam, here I am."

Melba's Jammin' saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore and told
us all about it on Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:12:46 -0600:

>A prayer for the Children

Thank you for reminding me of how much I truly have...

(huggles)

~Karen AKA Kajikit

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