A new child
Last night after my self-disclosure post, I actually had to organise a baby present to send to a friend, before the baby was too big to fit in what I bought. These days I try and make all my cards, to save some money, plus the hours I used to spend looking for that perfect card, but I am always looking for that something to stick on them. Then recently I discovered small crocheted bears! OK, so perhaps you need a little imagination to recognise the bear, but it’s my latest thing for baby cards. And my latest verse for baby cards is this Prayer for a New Child. I keep using it, because I am yet to find a better thing to write in a card for a new baby. I don’t know where it came from originally (if anybody does let me know). I think I actually stole it off Michael Jensen’s blog a few years ago.
O God, who dost renew all life on the face of the earth and dost reveal to human parents the mystery of thy creative work in the birth of a child, enable this couple, and all who found families where children grow, to express the tenderness of divine love, the innocence of divine community and the authority of divine instruction; that each new generation may have wherewith to seek thee, and all history resound to thy praise, until the coming of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ.