First Day Prayer

I thought about this last night and decided I should really post this. I go through some version of this every year.



God, thank you for the summer.

Thank you for putting me in a position to be able to spend so much time with all my family. Thank you for giving us the freedom to travel and experience new places, sights, and people. Thank you for all the memories which will continue to bind us together throughout our lives. Thank you for blessing me with a family in the first place - a family that is full of issues, weirdness, and struggle, but also full of love. Help me to continue to be the best father and husband I can be, and help me now to also return to being the best teacher, co-worker, and employee I can be. Thank you for giving me a job to go back to, and for making it a job that I truly enjoy. Help me compartmentalize my responsibilities so that one does not affect the other. Be with me and my family as we transition to a different way of living, but help us learn to enjoy and love the new realities as much as the old. Allow us to look forward to the next 'escape' without ignoring the small beauties and magic all around us every day. Let the wonder and joy of the day-to-day carry us through to the next big event.

Thank you God for the summer, and thank you for the upcoming Fall.

MS