Teacher's Prayer

I want to teach my students 
how to live this life on earth.

To face its struggles and its strife

and to improve their worth

Not just the lesson in a book

or how the river flow.

But to choose the proper path

wherever they may go.

To understand eternal truth 

and know the right from wrong

and gather all the beauty

of a flower and a song.

For if I help the world to grow

In wisdom and in grace

Then I shall feel that I have won 

and I have filled my place.

And so I ask your guidance, God.

That I may do my part for character and confidence

and happiness of heart.

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