Prayer for Grandchild at her birth.

 Dear God our Father, our Creator, thank you for your loving attention today.

Did You end creation on the sixth day? After the light broke free and the stars began to sing the fish and birds sprang from the sea. When Adam finished naming the animals and he woke to find a mate did you say “It’s very good! I’m done!”

I don’t think so. You’ve created something new today, the child of my child was born.

Today light from a loving mother and father fell on her brand-new eyes. The first thing that touched her was her mother’s warm skin. The first hands that held her had a father’s protection. The first words she heard was a song of Jesus’ Love.

For this we thank You.

We’re asking You for wisdom to teach her about your way. Our prayers are for her protection even when our efforts fail. When we come up short as humans often do, we’re asking for You to lead her where she should go.

One last creation we ask of You, when the time is right and her heart is drawn by Your Spirit that you will create in my grandchild. . . a new heart.

In Jesus Name. Amen.

Charles Woodruff is a seventy-year-old father of three and grandfather to two (and one on the way.) The top places on his love list are God and His Word, Wanda, his wife of forty-three years, and his grandchildren. He graduated from Greenville High School, spent four years in the Air Force and thirty-three years in power plant maintenance and now is retired. Accepting Jesus at nine and serving Christ in the Mississippi delta during the Jesus Movement, Charles was exposed to many types of Christian and non-Christian worldview and enjoys worshiping to many genres of Christian music. After serving Christ in His church for years as a teacher of all ages, from six to sixty plus, janitor, administrator, music director, etc. Charles realized that his calling was to be available. Charles favorite job in the church is self-appointed pastoral support and that includes using the words, “Amen” and “Good job Pastor!” Charles enjoys camping, astronomy and fixing things. His latest focus is studying the Bible, discovering God’s Laws about our relationship with Him, the physical world and his fellow human beings.

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