A garden of God is our childhood, each day
A festival radiant with laughter and play. _ _ _ M. J. Lebensohn
Bless our children, God, and help us so to fashion their souls by precept and example that they may ever love the good, flee from sin, revere Thy word, and honor Thy name. _ _ _ Union Prayer Book
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child,
Pity my simplicity,
Suffer me to come to Thee. Charles Wesley
Happy is he that is happy in his children. T. Fuller
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man. Herbert Hoover
Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheeks of tan. J. G. Whittier
On running stream of sparkling joy
To be a soaring human boy! Charles Dickens
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. Horace Bushnell
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed.
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head. Isaac Watts
This is my mission field: a child's heart
Where endless thoughts and actions start,
For in that heart through word and deed
I plant and water sacred seed. Marcia Baldon
Parenting is caring for souls that will live forever, and all of our daily work is part of that grand task. anonymous
Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire.
Let me not sink to be a clod-
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. Amy Carmichael (Toward Jerusalem, p. 94)
May the Joy of Thy salvation
Be their strength and stay;
May they love and may they praise Thee
Day by day. From a hymn by J.S. Stevenson
No man is poor who had a godly mother. Abraham Lincoln.
I am eternally grateful to my mother for many things, but one of the most enduring blessings she brought into my life was to teach me the Catechism at the age of ten that "God is Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth." That definition of God has been with me all my life. Billy Graham
The process of shaping the child ... shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example. Elisabeth Elliot
A Mother's Prayer
What wears me out
are little things;
angels minus
shining wings.
Forgive me, Lord,
if I have whined;
...it takes so much
to keep them shined;
yet each small rub
has its reward,
for they have blessed me.
Thank you, Lord. Ruth Bell Graham
The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the one business for which the earth exists. To it all politics, all war, all literature, all money-making, ought to be subordinated; and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God-this is his task on earth. R.L Dabney
Is. 44:3b,4,
Ps. 113, 100:5, 144:12, 127, 78:5-6, 8:2, 139
Gen. 18:19, 33:5, 1:28
Zech. 10:7
Mal. 4:6
Mark 10:14-16
2 Tim. 3:15
Rom. 12:12
Dt. 12:12, 6:5-7
1 Chron. 17:27
Prov. 23:24
Matt. 19:14