Oh Lord, Please Send an Angel Army (to minister to moms)

 

Sometimes home-sweet-home feels more like a battleground

where soul-diers in training can put up quite a fight

and test the best of any mom's/dad's fortitude!

Dear mother, daddy, do not despair! 

This little charge is worth every hard correction and prayer

Tots depend on mom and dad to do what no one else will;

 train them as they grow!

 It's not easy but it is the most important challenge

you will ever undertake!

 before time tips them out of childhood's 'wheelbarrow'...

Oh Lord, please send an angel down to minister to moms (and daddies)

In the thick of a battle with most crucial outcomes

Grant them wisdom and patience as they plant and prune and cull

Without the advantage of an instruction manual

Oh Lord, please send an angel down to minister to moms

Theirs is no undertaking of love, soon over-and-done

A mother’s love, a balance of both tough and tender, oh

As they train up a child in the way that they ought to go

Oh Lord, please send an angel down to minister to moms

For they grow weary as they discipline daughters and sons

It isn’t easy working for precious Child’s greater good

Lord, send an angel army to minister to motherhood (parenthood)

© Janet Martin

Prov.22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it.

Prov.3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
 in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight