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Teacher's Prayer for Guidance and Growth

The document contains two prayers - one asking the Holy Spirit to guide the speaker in listening to those in need and staying with the lost, and another prayer written by a teacher asking God for guidance to teach students how to live virtuously and face life's struggles while improving themselves. It also includes brief introductions about the prayerbook and its authors.

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Teacher's Prayer for Guidance and Growth

The document contains two prayers - one asking the Holy Spirit to guide the speaker in listening to those in need and staying with the lost, and another prayer written by a teacher asking God for guidance to teach students how to live virtuously and face life's struggles while improving themselves. It also includes brief introductions about the prayerbook and its authors.

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A Teacher’s Prayer

By Lisa Terneus | Published: November 16, 2009

Welcome to A Time for God, the Saint Louis University Prayerbook. If you are a first
time visitor you may wish to learn more about the prayerbook. We encourage you to find
a prayer for your reflection and to submit your own.
Thank you for visiting.

Holy Spirit, my heart is a humble home, but I open its doors to you.
Come: stay with me. Make of my being your dwelling place.
From within me, guide the steps of my life.

Give me new powers of listening, that I may hear even the quiet anguish of the lonely
and forgotten.
Give me the courage and compassion to seek out the silent cries of devastation and
shyness when no one else can hear them.
Give me the yearning heart to stay with the lost, neglected one
I find—and listen, even when all the voice this child of yours brings forth is a pair of
searching, terrified eyes and two trembling hands, reaching out.

There, in this wordless voice, let me hear my own; but mingled with it,
yours—let the two of us hear yours: that whisper of hope that ever bids us human beings
rise, together, and walk again in joy.

By, Mark Clark


English Department

James J. Metcalf
I want to teach my students how--
To live this life on earth,
To face its struggles and its strife
And to improve their worth.

Not just the lesson in a book,


Or how the rivers flow,
But to choose the proper path,
Wherever they may go.

To understand eternal truth,


And know right from wrong,
And gather all the beauty of
A flower and a song,

For if I help the world to grow


In wisdom and grace,
Then I feel that I have won
And I have filled my place.

And so I ask your guidance, God


That I may do my part,
For character and confidence
And happiness of heart.

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