Today is the first day of school for our three kids, here on the Gravelly Road... first days of 6th, 4th and 3rd grades. A day of new beginnings and new challenges for all of us. While this start of school is so different than past years (new routines and safety measures plus masks), all three get to start the year with in-person learning, build relationships with their new teachers, and see their friends!
I'm looking forward to hearing all about their first days when they return home to the gravelly road.
Dear Lord -
We ask for an extra special blessing on the school year ahead of each of our three children. Each journey is unique and will be used fore your purposes in their lie, though all three start a new phase today after being home both spring and summer. We especially pray for the safety and health of everyone at their schools and that wise decisions will be made to keep school a place of learning not fear and worry.
Guide their teachers as they give instruction, encouragement, and build the tone of their classrooms. Grant them wisdom for those moments when a child's tears or frustrated words are coming from a deeper hard place than just a tough morning. May their classrooms be places of learning and inclusion, a safe place to try, fail and try again.
Watch over our three as they start and strengthen friendships, handle challenges, try new hard things, work through conflict and learn the life lessons you have for them. Guide their words and actions so that they are kind and compassionate to those around them. Surround them with friends that bring out their best so that they can build each other up. Help them to be part of the good and amazing things you are doing in their schools.
Thank you again and again for allowing us to parent these precious kiddos. They are each growing and changing so fast it often takes my breath away. Continue to grow them into the people you called them to be and help me to help them see how you are working in their lives.
Amen.
