Back to School Prayers for my Grandchildren and Yours
Back to School Prayers
As my grandchildren ready themselves for back to school I remember how complicated (and expensive) it was to take 5 children shopping. Most years I divided them up and took the 3 oldest children and left the twins with my grandmother. Then I’d take the twins and leave the others at home. School supplies and clothes were expensive but we always managed to keep them dressed, fed and in tennis shoes. I would have to say that with 4 boys (3 of them have very large feet) that a large part of my budget was consumed by sneakers.
I remember one shopping trip when I spent at least two hours taking the boys to first one shoe store and then the other. Their indecisiveness about drove me crazy. Finally I told them if they didn’t make a choice within 5 minutes they were going home without ANY shoes. That did it.
I don’t know why I didn’t think of that about an hour earlier.
Prayer Time
Now my job as a Nana is to pray my grandchildren back to school, and it’s a job I don’t take lightly. Just as I pray for them I will also pray for ALL students. Many of them need our prayers for their home life as well for their education. I also pray for those folks who work in schools.
Yesterday I was scrolling through Facebook and found something I want to share with you.
This article was written about a teacher and it has to do with children’s scissors. What do children’s scissors have to do with back to school? Read on and you will find out.
The article says in part……
By Kait Hanson
As Ali Levasseur, a third grade teacher in College Park, Maryland, began preparing to head back to the classroom, she was struck by a moment that happened at the end of last school year.
Levasseur, who is heading into her seventh year of teaching, chose to share a powerful anecdote to social media about scissors.
“Last year, my entire grade 70 kids (give or take) had like 10 pairs of scissors total and if you know me, you know we are doing a project every other day, which usually call for scissors,” Levasseur wrote.
She continued, “On the last day of school, one of my students gave me a ziplock bag with 5 pairs of scissors and said he used his own money at the dollar store.”
Levasseur’s words overlapped a photo of the scissors.
“That’s the thing,” she continued. “The younger generations aren’t getting ‘worse.’ The kids aren’t getting ‘worse.’ We’re just failing them. Kids are so inherently good and pure and wholesome.”
The third grade teacher then explained that kids “are like sponges” and mimic what they see.
“Right now they see hatred, unsafe schools and no one who’s doing anything about it, the toxicity of social media and all that it’s become,” she wrote. “Just food for thought. It’s only a scary time to raise kids because we’re making it that way.”
I strongly encourage you to read the rest of the article by clicking here.
Encouragement for Back to School Prayers
If you aren’t already praying for our schools, students and all those who work in our schools, I encourage you to start now. If you can encourage the folks who work in education, I hope you will do that, too. Pray not just for your grandchildren but all schools and students that this year will be a peaceful, safe one where teachers can teach and students can learn. They deserve to feel safe and loved at home and at school, but we know there are many who don’t, so whisper an extra prayer for those children.
Our nation, our schools, our students and staff need your prayers!
