Teachers' Prayer heard at the 2015 Founder's Day program.
I felt teaching was a special calling. It is such a responsibility to train, teach, and hopefully instill values in each life we touch. Each day I felt the responsibility and let my prayer be as the poet wrote:
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day,
So prone myself to go astray?
I teach them knowledge, but I know
How faint the flicker and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them power to will and do,
But only now to learn anew
My own great weaknesses through & through.
I teach them love for all mankind,
And all God’s creatures, but I find
My love comes lagging far behind.
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
Oh, let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on Thee.
--- Leslie Pinckney Hill
I felt teaching was a special calling. It is such a responsibility to train, teach, and hopefully instill values in each life we touch. Each day I felt the responsibility and let my prayer be as the poet wrote:
Lord, who am I to teach the way
To little children day by day,
So prone myself to go astray?
I teach them knowledge, but I know
How faint the flicker and how low
The candles of my knowledge glow.
I teach them power to will and do,
But only now to learn anew
My own great weaknesses through & through.
I teach them love for all mankind,
And all God’s creatures, but I find
My love comes lagging far behind.
Lord, if their guide I still must be,
Oh, let the little children see
The teacher leaning hard on Thee.
--- Leslie Pinckney Hill