More Than a Birthday Poem...

Twenty years old!

How can it be?!

No more teenagers in the family!

We are all blessed by your kind, sweet and sunny personality!

God bless you, Dear Daughter, as you seek to honour Him

with your choices, hopes and dreams

This is more than a birthday poem

To wish you happiness

More than a toast to hopes and dreams

And their smiling success

More than sweet sentiment’s flourish

Of tender, loving care

This is more than a birthday wish

My dear, it is a prayer

A prayer, that He who has begun

His lovely work in you

Would always be the Faithful One

You trust to see it through

A prayer for God’s grace to bestow

Faith enough to proceed

Knowing for all we cannot know

He knows just what we need

This is a prayer for joy and peace

(for this is happiness)

A prayer that wisdom would increase

And with it, thankfulness

A prayer that life returns to you

The loveliness you give

That God will shine His face on you

For as long as you live

© Janet Martin

The Lord bless you and keep you;

25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,

And be gracious to you;

26 The Lord [a]lift up His countenance upon you,

And give you peace.” ’

Num.6: 24-26