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You are all in my prayers too. Not my intention to offend, only to help.
Thought with all of the prayers going on around here we could surely shar=
e
some with these people.
BE WELL, Mandy
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From: Anita Harrison <nitajo3(AT)yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [bfs] A prayer for the children
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> A Prayer for the Children
>
> We pray for the 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 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 everyone you know. If this gets to
> the town of Jonesboro, I'm sure they will be grateful to know that we
> all care.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> Love Anita Jo>
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