Thursday, May 05, 2011

National Day of Prayer

Today has been designated the National Day of Prayer. I was standing at the school house, overseeing the students at their lunch break, and one little gal, cute as a bug, started organizing an impromptu group prayer. She stood up and made her announcement, and in just a few minutes, there were about 200 high school students standing in a circle, holding hands, rich, poor, black, white, hispanic and asian. All in a circle with their heads bowed. That little gal got in the middle of the circle and called down the Lord on those assembled, blessed everyone and what is normally a rowdy, hormone-laden bunch became quiet and subdued and let her finish her prayer.

About the time she finished, the bell rang, signaling the end of the lunch period, and they immediately became a rowdy, hormone-laden bunch of kids again, moving toward the next class period.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pollen sure is bad today.......

J said...

Pawpaw, sometimes your writing ability stuns me.

Rivrdog said...

She'd have been suspended out here in un-churched Oregon if she tried that.

Nathan Martin said...

Thanks for sharing that faith-restoring post, Paw-paw.