Prayer for the Start of School

Prayer for the Start of School

Dear God, bless the start of school. Bless all those of any age who walk into a classroom. Bless those who teach. Bless those who learn. Bless our intellect and our freedom. Help us remember that you did not make us to never question, but so fashioned us that we cannot stop asking, cannot stop learning. School us not to follow blindly, but to think the what and why, to search each sacred mystery, to discover what we cannot deny.

–The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, Choctaw, Hope as Old as Fire, August 19, 2011