Mothering Sunday, Collect (Children's Reboot)

Loving God,

thank you for all the people

who mother us:

carers, friends, relations,

mums, dads and teachers!

Thank you that

you mother us as well.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.74 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 35.61 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a reboot.

The Mothering Sunday Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project runs from Advent 2012 to Advent 2013.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the link to my blog would be much appreciated.