A Teacher's Prayer

Submitted by Lauren Gill O'Brien
GCI Participant
March 20 2006

The following was on the wall in a primary head teacher’s office:

A Teacher’s Prayer

They came to me
with eager asking eyes;
And in my heart I pray
“God make me wise”.

They are so earnest
In the things they ask;
I would be faithful
to my teaching task.

They come bewildered
Seeking wrong from right;
And gently then I pray,
“God give them light”

For they will think
And do the things I do
In all I say to them,
I would be true.

The way is long I cannot teach alone
I am weak and
Often weary grown.

Those who dost teach
Thine own so patiently
O teach me Lord,
That I may teach like Thee