Marina Gorka/Belarus - Photo: Gail Ward
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We pray for children who spend all their pocket money before Tuesday, who throw tantrums in the supermarket and pick their food, who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the bath, who love visits from the tooth fairy, who don't like to be kissed in front of the school bus, who squirm in church, synagogue or temple and scream on the phone.
After the tsunami: Lambada Lhok/Indonesia - Photo: Sebastian Posingis
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And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat anything, who have never seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody, who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, who live and move and have no being.
Estelí/Nicaragua - Photo: Marianela Jaramillo
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We pray for children who want to be carried and for those who must, for those we never give up on and for those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough to offer it.
Written by Herta and Burckhard Deyerling