Speaking of Spirit

  First Steps - Vincent Van Gogh Publi c Domain From our first breath, we are learning.  We learn to recognize voices, scents and faces of our loved ones. We learn to form sounds into words, sentences, and eventually, put those words onto paper creating written language. We learn to make our bodies move.  We rollover, crawl, walk, skip, run, swim and climb. Throughout our lives, we learn hundreds of thousands of things. We never stop learning, which is one of the gifts Creator gave us...the ability to continue to learn.  There is no expiration date on our ability to learn.  Even those with diseases and conditions such as stroke or Alzheimer's can still learn. So, as the students return to our schools, as the big yellow buses pass us on the road, on the highways, as our leaders gather to debate the future of our country and the world, let us remember that we are still learning. We may learn that those we placed in office are not doing what we hoped ...

As the new school year begins, we send out theses thoughts and prayers for the teachers and students that they may have a year filled with peaceful classrooms, engaged learning and joyous moments of accomplishment. Photo Credit: Hippocrates lecturing to his students under the plane tree - via Wikimedia From the Iroquois Thanksgiving Address The Enlightened Teachers  We gather our minds to greet and thank  the enlightened Teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony,  they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people.  With one mind, we send greetings and thanks  to these caring teachers.  Now our minds are one. Aho! ~~~~~~ Prayer for Students   by S r. Joan Chittister - Benedictine Sisters of Erie May your journey  through the universal questions of life  bring you to a new moment of awareness.  May it be an enlightening one.  May you find embedde...

" Cordero " by Francisco Oller (1833-1917) -   Licensed under Public domain Schools in the US and around the world have begun a new year of classes.  The following are prayers from around the world for teachers and students... As School Starts Great Teacher, we call to you - be in our schools - in our classrooms -  on our buses  Protect us and keep us safe so that teachers can share knowledge with our students and students can build on that knowledge - Enlighten us so that we are able to see that happiness in this life is not about how much or how many, but rather about how we use our talents and who we touch in our lives - Bless us to that we might be the best teachers and the students we can be, thereby making the world around us  the best it can be - Amen! by LMN © 2014 ****** A Prayer for Teachers  God of Love…Thank you for every teacher who notices a child’s special gift. Thank you ...