Prayers for Mothers and Children

Evening Prayer

For little children who can already pray.

FROM head to foot
I am made in the image of God.
From my heart right into my hands
I feel the breath of God.
When I speak with my mouth
I follow the will of God.
When I behold God
In father and mother,
In all dear people,
In animal and flower,
In tree and stone,
Nothing can fill me with fear,
But only with love for all that is about me.

Do not teach specially. An adult speaks it each evening; by-and-by the child speaks single words, then whole lines, and thus gradually comes to know the whole prayer.