Saturday, March 29, 2008

High School Prayers

Much has been made of the effort to "remove God from the classroom" and as a result there is now a movement to put God "back in the schools".

These are some of the prayers of students at a prayer assembly in a high school where they decided to allow the students to pray aloud for what they really wanted:

"God I hope my parents never find about about the car."

"Jesus help me find my homework"

"God I hate Mr Anderson. I don't ever want to be in his class again."

"May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life for us and for all Israel"

"Dear God, I pray our football team kicks ass today"

"Lord I pray I'm not pregnant"

"Lord, help me score some good stuff tonight."

"God, make Ramon notice me. I hope he knows I like him. I really really want him to ask me out."

"God this is dumb. what do all these people think they are doing"

"Lord Jesus, we come before you and Praise You, Jesus. You are the Lord of All and Jesus we just Praise Your Name and, like, Jesus, Amen, we just ask you to show us the Way, Jesus, what to do and how to keep away from all the unclean things, Jesus, and how to walk with You, Jesus, Amen."

"Allah, in His infinite wisdom and care, please hear my Salah.  Stop, Jorge and Alice from making fun of me."

"Dear God, I cheated on my test today. Please, please don't let anyone find out. I promise I'll never do anything bad again."

"SeƱor, Gracias that I am not like all these stupid people here. I know you are looking out for me and I've always done right by You."

"Help me get laid tonight"

"Maria, I pray You in the Holy Name of Jesus, don't let the immigration people find uncle Manuel."

"I pray the Yankees win the Series."

"I pray the Dodgers win the Series. The Yankees suck."

"God help me with my homework. It's really difficult and I just can't figure it out."

"Jesus I just want bigger breasts."

"God I can't wait to get out of here. I feel like running away."

"Boss, I want to be a better person. I didn't mean to rat on Manny. Hey, I'm sorry, man. Can you make it right?"

"Holy Jesus, I really messed up with MaryAnn. I know we were supposed to use a condom. Please don't let her get pregnant."

"God I hope I aced the chem test."

"Spirits of the Earth, help me stay focused and centered today. Help me hear your wisdom."

"Sweet Jesus, I hope you come soon and destroy all the wicked people, especially Mrs. Mullen."

"Lord, God Jah, help your people rise up and overthrow the oppressor."

"God, if you give me that lead part in the play, then I promise I'll do my chores every day at home and not pick on my little sister ever again. Is it a deal?"

"God my butt itches"

"Father, help my grandpa, He's in hospital and not doing too well. Help him feel better. Help the doctors and nurses and especially Momma. This is really difficult for her. Amen."

"Lord, help us root out all the secular atheist liberals here and bring them to Jesus."

"All Praise and Thanks be to Allah. Support our brothers in Palestine."

"Great Spirit, open the eyes of those who would rape our land so they can see what they are doing. Protect our forests and lakes, fish, birds and every living thing."

"Like God, Wow, This is awesome. I'm blown away. Amazing. Wow."

"Please help me. You know who I am."

"God I hate you. Why did you let Grandma die? That's not fair. What kind of God are you?"

"Thank you for the beautiful day, the blue sky and the flowers and birds. And thanks that I passed my driving test."