Contributed by Tom Seeley / Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary

The Rotary club is one of those groups that you can be proud to be part of. The main objective of Rotary is service - in the community, in the workplace and throughout the world. Our own town of Skaneateles has 2 distinct Rotary clubs: Skaneateles Rotary Club and Skaneateles Sunrise Rotary Club. They both have many programs and projects that they support - visit their website for more information.

When Rotary International President-elect D.K. Lee announced the 2008-09 RI theme “Make Dreams Real” he said he was in disbelief when he learned that 30,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable diseases such as pneumonia, measles, and malaria. With that in mind, the following invocation was suggested:

We pray for children…
who put chocolate fingers everywhere,
who like to be tickled,
who stomp in puddles and ruin their new pants,
who sneak Popsicles before supper,
who erase holes in math workbooks,
who can never 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. (more…)

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