Heaven in our Hands...

Although there was a lot of this last week at the cottage,

 ...leaving golf-courses lake-strewn

there was always this to keep spirits from getting very low;-)

Ah baby-child, pure innocence

Stranger as yet to sin’s commands

Kissable chubby, cherub-ness

A glimpse of heaven in our hands

And we oft, softly wonder-struck

By teeny toes and rose-bud lips

Know that we need far more than luck

On life's vast sea of sinking ships

'Where influence soon touches you'

Ah, pray God then to touch us first

So we know what is good and true

In a world, careless and sin-cursed

And pray God; guide our hearts-hands-feet

Lest we would lead a child astray

Where innocence so pure and sweet

Cannot and will not stay this way

© Janet Martin

Whether soldier, worker, athlete, etc.; to learn something or excel at it requires training...

A powerful word when applied to the raising of our children!

 Train up a child in the way he should go:

 and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Prov.22:6