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A PRAYER FOR THE CHILDREN
We pray for the Children who sneak
Popsicle's
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
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
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 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.
In Memory of........
Natalie Brooks, student age 12
Paige Ann Herring, student age 12
Stephanie Johnson, student age 12
Brittany R. Varner, student age 11
Shannon Wright, Teacher age 32
This is in memory of the children and
teacher
killed in the shooting on Tuesday, March 24, 1998
in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
You don't have to but we ask that you please send this to people you know. If this gets to the town of
Jonesboro by the anniversary, I'm sure they will be grateful to know that we all care.
I wish I didn't have to do an update on this page, but we have seen so much of this killing, that it is now not possible to list all of the names of the precious ones who have fallen at the hand of the enemy. But this one thing I can say.... God is still in control, and the martyrs will have their day.
God will bring justice for these slayings and these who died for the sake of the cross, will be awaiting those of us who remain untill his return, and they will return with him.
They can praise the Lord now, and I know that they are praying for the ones who are so hurt, and in such pain that killings like this seem to be reasonable.
Pray for the families in America who are so caught up in the daily activities that they do not see the hurting and the needy ones.
Pray for the ones who have no one to tell them that they are wonderful and that they are made in the image of God.
People, there is an entire generation of young people in this country who do not know anything about the Lord Jesus Christ. Who do not know that Jesus died for them; that they can experience true acceptance in the family of God by receiving Jesus as
their savior.
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