Students
Great Teacher,
We pray for students of every age and every stage
As they enter a new season of learning.
May they find safe space
To pay attention and process the many emotions that arise.
Would they come to trust no amount of knowledge will matter
If they have not learned how to study the depths of their own emotional world.
May they become familiar with their physical limits and boundaries,
And consider care for their bodies as sacred stewardship.
Would they be quick to bring their weary and worn selves to Jesus
And keep company with Him so they could learn to live freely and lightly.
May your grace and truth be guideposts of their mental framework.
Would their every thought be filtered through your abundant love for the world,
Offering hope for the journey and energizing them
To pursue all that is good, beautiful, and true.
May they be open to Your presence and pursuit in all places,
That they would come to trust how You hold all things together.
Give them eyes to see and ears to hear,
That they might explore their learnings with the gift of discernment.
May every student be given the gift of a diversity of relationships:
Good, hard, different, and deep.
May their most tangible and lasting lessons
Be learning to see the image of God in every classmate,
And the God story in every endeavor.
Amen.
Bekah Stewart (BekahStewart.com) is a spiritual director, LifePlan guide, and creator of Girl Stand Up: A 9 month Guided Passage for Women. Her debut book Permission to Matter: Reclaiming Women's Humanity & Authority at the Invitation of Jesus just released in June.
