Rosemead Kiwanis Club
"Serving the Community Since 1945"
FAX OF
LIFE
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Rosemead Kiwanis Club "Serving the Community Since 1945" |
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FAX OF LIFE
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The Fax of Life
A weekly inspiration, courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Scott's Valley
March 18, 2007
Volume 12, Number 23
who like to be tickled,
who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants,
who sneak popsicles before supper,
who erase holds in math workbooks,
who never can find their shoes....
And we pray for those who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire,
who can't bound down the street in a new pair of sneakers,
who never "counted potatoes,"
who are born in places we wouldn't be caught dead,
who never go to the circus, who live in an X-rated world.
We pray for children who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish,
who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,
who cover themselves with Band-Aids and sing off key,
who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,
who slurp their soup....
And we pray for those who never get dessert,
who have no safe blanket to drag behind them,
who watch their parents watch them die,
who can't find any Bread to steal,
who don't have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures are not on anyone's dresser,
whose monsters are real...
We pray for children who spend all their allowance before Tuesday,
who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick their food,
who like ghost stories, who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub, who love visits from the tooth fairy,
who don't like to be kissed in front of the school bus,
who squirm in church or temple and scream in the
phone....
And we pray for those whose nightmares come in the daytime, who will eat
anything, who have never seen a dentist, who aren't spoiled by anybody,
who go
to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep, who live and move and have no
being.
We pray for children who want to be carried, for those who must be,
for those we never give up on and
for
those who will grab the hand of anyone kind enough
to offer it.
--- Contributed by Janice Nata
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.
The Kiwanis Club of Scott's Valley is a community service club and meets at the Heavenly Café in Scott's Valley on Wednesdays at 7 am. You are welcome to join us anytime.
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