Having been orphaned at age eighteen months and knowing how it feels not to have parents to run to for comfort and love. Allow me to share a prayer that touched my heart and was mailed to me from the children's home where I lived for twelve years. There is a hackneyed saying that “Children step on your feet when they're little and step on your heart when they're old.” I like the scriptural statement better that reads, "Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." Also, “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”
“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 potato’s?’
* 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 don't like to be kissed in front of the car pool.
* 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 {m} 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.”
Author unknown
Reference: Psalm 127: Verse 3, 5a The Holy Bible...