Baby is teething and objects loudly to being put down for long...
Mommy is so weary!🙏
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...with these two to keep her on her toes (and knees) besides!
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I am no longer parenting little children but
I am grand-parenting little children
which makes the messages below very relevant to my season of life as well!
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To leave children without principles is
not to make them free but it is to render them helpless
Alistair Begg in Teach Your Children Well Part 2 of 4)
We have within our keeping a very precious charge
of innocence soon reaping the harvest of its guards
no commonplace appointing from God, is parenthood
a baby the anointing of wonder, pure and good
we have within our caring, besides child's sweet delight
the onus of preparing the soul-dier for the fight
no commonplace employment is the call they bestow
far more than mere enjoyment of watching Soul-dier grow
we have within our reaching (for such a little time)
wide flung windows of teaching far more than nursery rhyme
no commonplace vocation to all whom God assigns
the careful cultivation of very tender vines
What a priceless investment; the training of a child
how soon the world's resistance tests with lures, lie-defiled
no commonplace endurance, a parent's prayers outpoured
For wisdom and assurance established in God's Word
we have within our asking a very present Aid
Who tenders with love's tasking, commands to be obeyed
For this is no small gracing, a child, innocence-wrought
But a Soul-dier soon facing life, armed with what was taught
© Janet Martin
Link to all four messages in this series below
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