Definitely food for thought for teachers to do this so that their classrooms
and students will be protected from the whims of the world in trying to make
the teaching of our children harder than it should be. This would be one
way of bringing back prayer into the classrooms, the silent prayer from the
teacher.
Angels in the Classroom
A pastor read a letter from an elementary school
teacher who attends East Hill Church. The gist of the letter was as
follows:
Last school year, her classroom was made up of little third graders, every
one of which came from either a single parent family, or a dysfunctional
family, was undernourished and/or uncared for, lived in an abusive home, and
was either beaten, bruised, or raped by other family members; one little
girl's dad died of aids, and the list goes on. Her heart bled for these kids.
Before the '99-2000 school year started, she and her husband went to her
classroom and prayed over each desk in the room. They prayed that God would
place an angel behind each and every child throughout the coming year to
watch over them and protect them.
A month or so after the year had started, she gave the kids an assignment to
write about what they would like to be when they grew up.
Everybody was busy with his or her assignment, when "Andrew" raised his
hand. When she asked him what he needed, he asked how to spell "mighty."
After telling him how to spell mighty, she asked him why he needed to know.
Andrew said it was because when he grew up he wanted to be a "mighty man of
God." When he said this, little "Mark" sitting next to him asked, "So,
what's a mighty man of God?"
The teacher, swallowing back her tears, and knowing she could not say
anything in the classroom, told Andrew to go ahead and tell Mark what it was.
So Andrew says, "It's a man who puts on the armor of God and is a soldier
for God." After observing some conversation between Andrew and Mark, the
teacher, with a lump in her throat, started to walk away when Andrew
motioned with his little forefinger for her to come closer. He whispered to
her, asking if she believed in angels. She told him yes, she did. Then he
asked her if she thought people could see angels, and she said she thought
some people probably could.
Andrew said that he did, and he could see an angel standing behind each kid
in the room.
I don't think there was a dry eye in the church that night!
We need to remember to pray for all of the teachers, that although there is
no prayer in school, that they are dedicated enough to pray for the
protection of God's angels over the lives of their students.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt, even at work.