Prayer

One of the standards at our school is that students will become "Reflective Spiritual Beings." I've seen a lot of evidence of that in my first and second graders' prayers each morning. This week we've been talking about the death of a high school student named Marco, which occurred over the weekend, and my kids prayed:
- Please help all the high school kids.
- Help the family be comfortable and not scared.
- Thank you for dying on the cross so we can go to Heaven like Marco.
- Thank you for beating the devil so we can live forever with you.
- Please help Marco have fun in Heaven.
And my favorite is the boy who prays the exact same thing every day: I know Jesus died on the cross to take away all my sins (which he pronounces seens) and I know that the juice stands for the blood and the bread stands for the body. Amen.