Dear Friends -- I thought you'd like to see this. Claire
Paul Schenk, PsyD wrote:
> I received this from a colleague who often sends along good
> "grins". This one is on a much different note, but one equally
> worth sharing with you all.
> - Paul
>
> -------------Forwarded Message-----------------
>
> >> 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 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 or temple 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.
> >>
> >> ~ UNKNOWN
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> 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.
>
> Richard Rasche
> rasche@mindspring.com
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