Many sweet sisters I love have given birth in the last few weeks. Several are making plans right now for new babies to come home. What a huge life-changing event for parents This is my prayer for all those mamas and babies.
God Bless the Babies
God, give them strength as they enter our lives.
Give wisdom to parents as each of them strives
To make for them places in our world to grow.
Teach them Lord. We’re so small. There’s so much we don’t know.
God bless them as they to your wonders awake.
Bless them, dear Lord, when their first steps they take.
They’re so small. May their scratches and bruises be small.
May mama’s kiss make it better each time they may fall.
Lily Annette Colley
Help them to learn, Lord, just what they should know
To take them in life where you want them to go.
But in all of this learning, may they never forget.
The One who has made them and walks with them yet.
Give them courage when Satan first gets in the way.
May they stay near your word. May they kneel down and pray.
May they put on you Lord. That’s my most fervent prayer;
And for all of their days cast on you every care.
Olivia Leigh Benavides
When the time comes, Oh God, that they must go away,
In that “letting go”, Lord, still hear us pray.
God, bless the babies. Look down from your throne.
Watch over them gently, for still they’re your own.
Give them shelter, dear Lord, from this world’s raging storm,
In a place where your love shines; a place that is warm.
Give them people to help them seek you throughout life.
Give them one of your own, for each husband or wife.
And one day may they know the joy we now feel,
Of a life just beginning, but precious and real.
May something we put in their hearts make them sure
That even souls in the womb are yours, precious and pure.
Amos Hiram Moon
So Father, my prayer is for life you’re now giving;
And, more, for sweet souls that will always be living.
Our task is so great. We’re so small. May we see
That “through Christ I can do all, for He strengthens me.”