Tuesday 19th May

I will instruct you and teach you

in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. Psalm 32:8

Dear Lord,

In this crucial week when final decisions are made about returning to school,

please inspire those whose task it is to plan the return.

Help them to hear your voice above conflicting opinions.

Please minister to all the teachers who are frustrated and exhausted:

creating home learning for their class,

together with teaching key workers children.

Give them times of rest and encouragement.

Enable headteachers and others in management roles

to make the children’s well being a priority -

despite the complicated guidelines.

Please reassure teachers feeling the loss of pupil contact time

with your word, ‘let the children come to me …

the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’

Lord hear our prayer,

Amen