Asmillions of Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas andtheir belief that God entered human history as a poor tiny baby, let usremember all the poor babies and children who struggle to live and realizetheir God given potential in our own rich land and all around the world today.And commit to act to assure hope and justice for them all.
O God of the children of Somalia, Sudan, and Syria, of South Africa and South Carolina,
Of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and of India, Iraq, Iran, and Israel
Of the Congo and Chicago, of Darfur and Detroit
Of Myanmar and Mississippi and Louisiana and Yemen
Help us to love and respect
and protect them all.
O God of Black and Brown and White and Albino children and those allmixed together,
Of children who are rich and poor and in between,
Of children who speak English and Russian and Hmong and Spanish and
languages our ears cannot discern,
Help us to love and respect
and protect them all.
O God of the child prodigy and the child prostitute, of the child ofrapture and the child of rape,
Of runaway or thrown away children who struggle every day without
parent or place or friend or future,
Help us to love and respect
and protect them all.
O God of children who can walk and talk and hear and see and sing anddance and jump and play and of children who wish they could but can't
Of children who are loved and unloved, wanted and unwanted,
Help us to love and respect
and protect them all.
O God of beggar,beaten, abused, neglected, homeless, AIDS, drug, violence, and hunger-ravagedchildren,
Of children who are emotionally and physically and mentally fragile,
and of children who rebel and ridicule, torment and taunt,
Help us to love and respect
and protect them all.
O God of children of destiny and of despair, of war and of peace,
Of disfigured, diseased, and dying children,
Of children without hope and of children with hope to spare and to
share,
Help us to love and respect
and act to protect them all.
--Copyright2013 by Marian Wright Edelman
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