And a Small Child Shall Lead Them
Having childlike faith is not always easy, but it is possible with the right inspiration!
I got my inspiration from our granddaughter as she grew in the first year of her little life with us. Of course, I shared it with Homie (Boyce) first because I was so excited by this new revelation!
Now, I want to put it in writing form and share it with you all!
Before our granddaughter, Boyce and I always prayed for our children. When they became teenagers and began dating, we started praying for our grandchildren too. This may seem strange, since we didn’t have any at this point. But looking around us in today’s culture where children were born outside the boundaries of God’s perimeters, the ones He set in the beginning with the first marriage of a man and a woman, Adam and Eve, to single moms and even single dads, worried us.
From our own teenage days, we understood how children wanted to be accepted by the culture they were growing in. In this culture, I’ve known single girls as young as 13 begin having babies with different fathers. This wasn’t accepted as the norm in mine and Boyce’s day. Most of the people we knew were married, for better or for worse, before children.
This is no judgment from me on anyone because I know I’m just a sinner saved by grace, like everyone else.
My testimony and revelation today that I am sharing with you are not about that, but about our granddaughter!
Boyce and I prayed for our children that they would not have children until they married and were ready. The years went by and finally they were married, but we had been praying for our grandchildren all that time too; so many prayers.
I was with my daughter and son-in-law when our granddaughter was born. I saw her lifted up the minute she came into our world and the doctor laid her on her mommy’s tummy. When she was face to face with her mommy, she smiled. Continue reading “Do You Think Your Little Ray of Sunshine Could Change the World?”
Author Della M Strickland 