Time Well Spent
See tiny fingers and tiny toes,
Bright baby eyes, cute baby nose;
Hear baby gurgles and baby sighs,
As Mom and Dad sing lullabies.
Life is changed, but that's okay;
It's fun to spend glad hours each day,
Taking time for all the good
That comes along with parenthood.
By Joanna Fuchs

The Gift...

When we are young and think we own our precious youth,
we do not realize what treasure we possess.
When we are old, we see what we have lost.
Riches once were given that we left unprized -
strength and innocence from a universal source -
because we thought all life was meant to be like that.
We had no way by which to know or judge,
we saw through only eyes of simple youth.
Now we recognize it was just a gift,
like life itself received,
enjoyed but once then slowly slipped away,
a one-time loan now called in,
never to be held again.
But youth is only part of life, not the whole, by far.
Mind, feeling, spirit; insight,
sense of art and life increase with age as youth and supple beauty fade.
We change, we grow, we lose, we gain,
we come to understand that life is more than rosy cheek and lithely muscled limb,
the purple flower fresh the honeyed bee does suck in spring.
Life's serene and bitter both, there is truth we come to see,
transcendence of a kind, faithful, pure, inquiring mind,
heart that fully feels the pain and glory of the world.
Our bodies ravaged be, but beauty ever dwells in you and me.

Copyright by Don Gray

Let us not be weary in doing good
For all proper time
We will reap a harvest
If we do not give up.

Climb Till Your Dreams Come true

Often your tasks will be many and more than you think
you can do.
Often the road will be rugged and the hills, insur-
mountable too.
But always remember, the hills ahead are never as
step as they seem.
And with faith in our heart start upward and climb till
you reach your dream.
For nothing in life that is worthy is never too hard
achieve.
if you have the courage to try it and you the faith to
believe.
For faith is a force that is greater than knowledge or
power or skill.
And many defeats turn into triumph if you trust in
God's wisdom and will.
For faith is a mover of mountains there's nothing that
God and you cannot do.
Do, start out today with faith in your heart and climb
till your dreams come true.