Loving God,
We come before you tonight and thank you for the many blessings in our lives and in particular for the gift of teenage young adults who are the future of our world. We pray that your comforting and wise Holy Spirit will never be far from them as they spread their wings and find their way in the world. We pray that your grace may be on all their parents and provide special gifts of patience, fortitude, the ability to converse in a normal tone of voice and a loving manner, and the strength to be real parents with real standards formed on a strong faith in God and a real deep abiding love for these children. Lord, please protect these young adults as they make new friends, try new things, find their way in the world, and often make mistakes and bad choices. Please call them back to receive the unconditional love you have for them and help them to respond to you, even though your call is often like a whisper in a hurricane to a teenager. Please give them a generous heart for service and a deep interest in making things better for the least among us in your world. Help them to do well in their studies so they may form the ability to develop new ways of solving the challenges and persistent problems of our world with fresh and righteous ideas. Please help them to understand at the end of the day, it is all about love of God, love of your people, and love of self - in that order. Please prosper the work of their hands, the thoughts and plans of their minds, and the grace and effect of their prayers. Thank you Lord for these special ones, and help all of us to support and guide them in their development as they prepare to take your creation to the next generation.
We pray in the name of your beloved son Jesus, who was once a teenager himself, and who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever.
Amen.