What a Precious Blessing Our Babies Are!

Frustration, exhaustion, stress...... These things seems to overbear me at times! But boy, this is such a reminder of how God chose to bless us with a sweet little angel that is growing up way to fast.

Lord, Help me remember, when I feel it's a chore
the time will come when I'll hold her no more
asleep on my chest, the crib refused
the blanket, the pacifier, gone unused.
What better place is there to lay her head
than against my heart, my arms her bed?
For infants grow up and leave us behindwith only memories left to remind
us of midnight walking and predawn rocking,
of soft, helpless babies unable to sleep.


So, Lord, make me patient and keep me awakewhile I cradle this child, and don't let me take
for granted the moments I spend in the night
with this ~ Your gift, my joy, my delight.


~Jan Dunlap