A Boy Is……..

A Boy Is…

Author: Unknown

Trust with dirt on his face,
Beauty with a cut on his finger,
Wisdom with bubble gum in his hair,
And the hope of the future
With a frog in his pocket.

Well, my grandson hasn’t had a frog in his pocket, but his Dad did when he was about the same age as David is now (3-1/2), or I should say a toad. Only we didn’t believe him when he told us he had one in his pocket, and only when he took the frog out of his robe pocket, (a flattened frog/toad from sleeping on it all night) did we really believe him. The story goes like this, his older sister brought a frog into the house, and as the night progressed we asked them to take the frog/toad outside and leave it there. Well as children do sometimes, instead of letting the toad go outside, our son (his name is Dave too) put the toad in his robe pocket and slept with his robe on all night with the toad in it. We joke about the toad croaking in the night!

Now it’s our son’s turn to have a toad/frog trick from his son. Although I must say, our grandson has a long way to go to catch up to all the tricks his Dad did at his age.

We Need You, Lord

We need you, Lord.
Like lost wanderers in a burning, empty desert
thirst for cool, clean water,
we long for you to quench us.
In a world gone progressively mad,
with chaos all around us,
we seek refuge in the order and purpose of your law.
With evil sneaking, leaking everywhere,
spreading heavy darkness,
creating feelings of emptiness,
we hunger for your goodness and light.
Turn us around, Lord, we pray;
retrieve your sheep who have gone astray.
Draw us to the satisfaction
of your purity and righteousness.
Cleanse us, and make us more like you,
role models, examples, beacons,
for others who are searching for meaning for their lives.
Come, Lord Jesus.
We need you, Lord.

Help us Lord, to be more like you – role models and beacons for children, grandchildren and friends.  Have you ever prayed for the Lord to make you more like Him?  It seems like after you pray you go through more trials and tribulations than you have for awhile.  That is God’s way of  drawing us closer to Him and being made more like HIm.  It’s a struggle, but I’ve found out if I ask Him for strength and courage He gives it to me when I need it.  We need to be clay in the Potter’s hands, pliable, flexible and able to be stretched – boy do I feel stretched somedays!  I’ll have to remind myself on the hard days that God is working on me!!

Child of my child……

Child of my child Heart of my heart
Your smile bridges the years between us
I am young again …
discovering the world through your eyes
You have the time to listen And I have the time to spend.
Delighted to gaze at familiar loved features …
made new in you again Through you …
I’ll see the future Through me …
you’ll know the past
In the present we’ll love one another As long as these moments last

~~ Author Unknown ~~

Grandmas love to give gifts to their grandchildren, although the greatest and lasting gift we can give is faithful prayer.

A good way to pray for your grandchild is to use Scripture, you can just paraphrase Scripture by inserting the name(s) of your grandchild(ren) (and children!) and praying verses for them that cover every aspect of their life.

As we know, the Word was written by the Holy Spirit’s inspiration and is full of power and hope, and God said His Word would not return empty/void (see Isaiah 55:11). What a great way to have our prayers based on the Solid Foundation/Rock.

Today I pray for my grandchild, paraphrasing Scriptures and inserting his name in certain verses – for instance, I pray Isaiah 11:2, I can ask that my grandchild will have:

the Spirit of the Lord rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of power,
the Spirit of knowledge and of [reverential] fear of the Lord

And for Salvation:

Thank you, heavenly Father, that you are not willing that my grandchild should be lost in sin. I trust that he will become a believer in You. I thank you in advance that he will become a believer in You.  I pray that he will be taught by You and that great will be his peace (see Matthew 18:14; 2 Peter 3:9; Isaiah 54:13). And……May my grandchild show aptitude for learning, be well informed and quick to understand, have wisdom, great insight and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore (see Daniel 1:4; 1 Kings 4:29), and most of all may he have a heart like Jesus!