A Prayer to the
God of
All Children
When you read this prayer slowly, you will experience the passion and love, the gift and gratitude
in my heart and soul for you …in behalf of children.
O God of the children of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
of Israel, Iraq, and Iran, Jerusalem and Jericho
of South and North Korea, Burundi and Rwanda
of South Africa, South Carolina, San Francisco and San Antonio
Help us to love and respect and act now to protect them all.
O God of black and brown and white and albino children and those all mixed together
of children who are rich and poor and in between
of children who speak English and Russian and Hmong and
Spanish and Chinese and Hebrew and Arabic and languages our ears cannot discern
Help us to love and respect and act now to protect them all.
O God of the child prodigy and child prostitute,
of the child of rapture and the child of rape
of run or thrown away children who struggle every day
without parent or place or friend or future
Help us to love and respect and act now to protect them all.
O God of children who can walk and talk and hear and
see and sing and dance 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 act now to protect them all.
O God of beggar, beaten, abused, neglected, homeless,
AIDS-, drug-, violence-, and hunger-ravaged children,
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 act now to protect them all.
O God of children of destiny and despair,
of war and peace,
of disfigured, diseased and dying children,
of children without hope and
of children with hope to spare and share
Help us to love and respect and act now to protect them all.
"A Prayer to the God of All Children:" author unknown.
Shared by Ardeth Platte, OP in her November 2004 reflection from jail.