Please
remember in your prayers all who are preparing for, or sitting exams….
these prayers are taken from the Church of England
website (and were referred to in the Times and Times Online papers):
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3964810.ece
Prayers for primary school pupils
Dear Lord, even when things seem impossible, help me to trust you.
Please give me friends I can rely on and help me listen
to adults I can trust. Amen.
Prayers for secondary school students
God of all time, we are in the midst of stressful times.
Give us grace to see that it is the making of our success, the making of our characters, the making of our selves.
We thank you for the gift of all that we are and all that we have the potential to be.
Fill us with your Spirit that we may grow into those people who are not afraid to try and not afraid to fail.
And, loving God of all your people, give us grace to celebrate with all our classmates, families and friends,
that as they fail or succeed, they are living, they are
trying and they are growing into your perfect love, which casts out all fear.
Amen.
Prayers suitable for use by/with primary
school students
Dear Lord
Even when things seem impossible, help me to trust you.
Please give friends I can rely on and help me listen to
adults I can trust.
Amen.
Dear Lord,
Thank you for stories in the Bible that show us that being worried and afraid are common feelings.
Thank you even more that with Jesus we too can face
storms and massive waves knowing that he is there to calm us.
Amen.
Prayers suitable for use by/with
secondary school students
Heavenly Father,
during these testing times
we thank you that you love us
whatever path we take or whatever happens.
Help us, wherever we can,
to follow in the footsteps of your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Reflection suitable for use by/with
secondary school students
No one can see around corners. No one knows what is
going to happen in the future. Other people may have views of what we should be
like - great expectations for us. We may have great expectations for ourselves.
Because we're human we often get our expectations out of balance, we expect too
much - or not enough - of ourselves and those around us.
Christians believe that Jesus has great expectations of
everyone, that everyone can become the person they were created to be, and that
God loves the person we really are. So let us think for a moment about what our
expectations could really be, what gifts we have, what will truly help us become
ourselves. If we get that right, it should help us to face whatever lies around
the corner.