Beatitudes for Kids

BLESSED is that child who has someone who believes in him and has high hopes for him.

BLESSED is that child who has someone to whom he can carry his problems unafraid.

BLESSED is that child whose home is a haven of happiness.

BLESSED is that child to whome life is a book of knowledge and is privileged to turn the pages one by one.

BLESSED is that child who is allowed to pursue his curiosity into every worthwhile field of information.

BLESSED is that child who has someone who understands that childhood griefs are real and call for understanding sympathy.

BLESSED is that child who is led gently by the hand along the pathway of life by one who is a guide, companion and inspiration.

BLESSED is that child whose love of the true, the beautiful and the good has been nourished through the years.

BLESSED is that child whose innate imagination has been turned into channels of creative effort.

BLESSED is that child whose efforts to achieve have found encouragement and kindly commendation.

BLESSED is that child who has learned freedom from selfishness through responsibility and co-operation with others.

BLESSED is that child who discovers that all life is a process of education and that each graduation is but a commencement in a higher grade.

BLESSED is that home, or community, or nation which sees in the child the hope of the future and dedicates itself to the realisation of that hope.