http://www.getchurch.org/cgi-bin/weblog.pl A Newsletter For and By A Community of Grace. en http://www.getchurch.org/cgi-bin/weblog.pl/2006/09/08#A_Fall_Prayer <P>O Lord, the time of year reminds us that for every end there is a beginning; after the rest and re-creation of summer, there is the return to the routine of daily life.&nbsp;&nbsp;O Lord, help us to maintain the youthful spirit of summer throughout the coming year, remembering that youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;So long as our hearts receive messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur, and power from the earth, from man, and from You, O Lord, so long are we young.</P> <P>For all the teachers and students who have returned to school after the long summer break:&nbsp; grant them to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving and to esteem that which is precious in Your eyes. </P> <Edited by 69.157.19.22 on Fri Sep 8 13:29:48 2006>