Heading to the airport at three in the morning

Dear Lord, Please be with all the youth, teachers, scientists and hosts as they journey together these next 11 days.  Keep them safe.  Open their minds.  Broaden their experiences.  Teach them to reach farther, higher and deeper.  Keep them safe.  Be with those of us who are letting them go a little more each day.  Help us to stand back and watch at times and at others, hold them close in an embrace.  Keep the love strong.  Bring us back together again with stories, experiences and pictures.  Help us to trust the program, the leaders and the students to make good decisions.  In you, dear God, we trust and put our faith.  Amen.