God we lift up parents of students to you today. We know that our lives are but a breath and each of our breaths are gifts from your Spirit. Grant parents a deeper level of trust in you this year. Help them to trust their children more fully into your good and sovereign care. Please give each parent courage for we know that parenting is not for the faint of heart. We ask for patience for parents. Help them to lead when they need to lead and help them to follow the lead of their child as appropriate too. Give them insight into their children’s curiosity and help to follow that curiosity with wisdom and understanding. Help parents to allow the natural talents and God given gifts in their children to flourish in full measure. Help them to celebrate their children exactly as you’ve created them to be, even when those talents are not the ones our society might celebrate. Carry them in your love, grace, wisdom and truth this new school year. Give them courage, give them patience, give them strength to parent well.
For our students we ask for strength to take risks. We ask for your Spirit-empowerment to take risks, explore curiosities and embrace new challenges. We pray that you would give our students great empathy for other students. Anchor them in your love so that they might have the confidence in who they are in you so that they can take the necessary risks to connect with others. Bless our students in the year ahead.
God we lift up teachers to you today. We honor them, we celebrate them and we ask you on their behalf for help in this new year. Give them patience, hope, and courage to do what is right, especially when what is right is hard or unpopular. In the midst of many external pressures, give them insight strength and courage to follow you in being the teacher you have created them to be. Give them an unwavering confidence in you. Give them unconditional positive regard for their students, especially the ones they may not understand. Help them to forgive the hurts, and to have empathy for each and every student, parent and colleague in this new year. May these teachers experience your love, grace, courage and strength flowing through them to those they teach, lead and guide in this new year.
And God we pray for those connected in a host of other ways. May every person connected to a school community play their part in strengthening these future people of society. Help this generation to learn well, to think deeply, to respect authority, to be curious, to embrace hard problems and to show respect to all. May those not feeling connected to a school community have eyes open to ways they might connect in supporting the next generation. God we lament before you that our schools are not always fair, they are not always equitable, they are not always safe environments for learning. So we pray for your protection, for your justice, for your shalom over our school communities this new year.
And God we pray for those connected in a host of other ways. May every person connected to a school community play their part in strengthening these future people of society. Help this generation to learn well, to think deeply, to respect authority, to be curious, to embrace hard problems and to show respect to all. May those not feeling connected to a school community have eyes open to ways they might connect in supporting the next generation. God we lament before you that our schools are not always fair, they are not always equitable, they are not always safe environments for learning. So we pray for your protection, for your justice, for your shalom over our school communities this new year.
We pray all this in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. AMEN
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