24 days and counting

By now, all students, K – Gr. 12, have gone back to class. In some of our school districts, the youngest classes were the only students in the school building on the first day of classes yesterday so they could learn their way around and become accustomed to their building. Today, all of the classrooms of our community are filled with excitement and activity. A new season of learning has begun!

Prayer
O God, source of all goodness: We give you thanks for the gift of reason and the opportunity for education. Bless our schools, that they may be places of learning and safety where teachers challenge the minds and nurture the hearts of students. Grant that teachers and students may work together in mutual respect and find joy in the challenges of academic life; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

--Evangelical Lutheran Worship, p. 78.