Prayer for America 08/31/05

Godspeed Gennaro

Father, I can feel summer loosening its grip. Children are getting ready to go back to school. I know they'll soon be sitting in classrooms, some resisting, some engaging in the process of learning. And I know their teachers will be put to the test to excite their minds with knowledge.

Please, Father, help those teachers succeed in breaking through short attention spans and late nights and missed meals and too much TV and the normal frenzy of childhood. America's future depends on those children learning math and science and history. Give those teachers the strength, courage, and wisdom to teach what's right in the best way possible. And help those children learn, Father, even if it is in spite of themselves.