P1 - Teacher’s Prayer
Lord, let me be just what they need.
If they need someone to trust, let me be trustworthy.
If they need sympathy, let me sympathize.
If they need love, (and they do need love),
Let me love, in full measure.
Let me not anger easily, Lord but let me be just.
Permit my justice to be tempered in your mercy.
When I stand before them, Lord,
Let me look strong and good and honest and loving
And let me be as strong and good and honest and loving as I look to them.
Help me to counsel the anxious, crack the covering of the shy,
Temper the rambunctious with a gently attitude.
Permit me to teach only the truth.
Help me to inspire them so that learning
Will not cease at the classroom door.
Let the lessons they learn make
Their lives fruitful and happy.
And, Lord, let me bring them to You.
Finally, permit me to learn the lessons they teach.