The Student's Prayer

[DogBluff]

With final exams looming nearer, this has been in my mailbox serveral times. I still get a kick out of it. Hope ya'll enjoy it as much as I have.
~Jamie


The Student Prayer

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not flunk:
He keepeth me from lying down when I should be studying.
He gives me new strength
He leadeth me besides the water cooler for a study break;
He restoreth my faith in study guides.
He leads me to better study habits for my grades sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of borderline grades,
I will not have a breakdown;
For thou art with me.
My prayers and my friends, they comfort me.
Thou givest me answers in moments of blankness;
Thou anointest my head with understanding.
My test paper runneth over with questions I recognize.
Surely passing grades and flying colors shall follow me all the days of my examinations,
And I shall not have to dwell in this school forever.
Amen.

 

[Carrye]

Oh, that's great - as both a teacher and a student, I love it!

Here's a more serious one from St. Thomas Aquinas:

Prayer for Guidance

Creator past all telling,
you have appointed from the treasures of your wisdom
the hierarchies of angels,
disposing them in wondrous order
above the bright heavens,
and have so beautifully set out all parts of the universe.

You we call the true fount of wisdom
and the noble origin of all things.
Be pleased to shed
on the darkness of mind in which I was born,
The twofold beam of your light
and warmth to dispel my ignorance and sin.

You make eloquent the tongues of children.
Then instruct my speech
and touch my lips with graciousness.
Make me keen to understand, quick to learn,
able to remember;
make me delicate to interpret and ready to speak.

Guide my going in and going forward,
lead home my going forth.
You are true God and true man,
and live forever and ever.

 

[Sair]

I love them both!!!

 

[JOYfulbeliever]

I had that first one memorized while I was in college! Brings back great, but aweful memories! LOL

 

[plum]

Ah, St. Thomas Aquinas, thank you for your prayers. They bless me constantly.

 

[Hewitt]

God bless poetry!