These words ring loudly in my ears today:

'We have to learn to be patient, and keep up our vigil over our dreams. You say "What is that vigil?"...sow a seed of faith...sow the Word of God...sow financially as God tells you to...be good to other people, keep a good, positive confession, stay patient, sweet and nice while you wait and...there's no way the devil can keep you from having what God wants you to have...those things just work; they absolutely work.' Joyce Meyer

Keeping my vigil today, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those that are ahead, looking forward with eager anticipation to the joys that lay before me. I'm so glad I am a child of God!

Tiny Babe

Though these days are behind me now, I was inspired recently to pull out a poem I wrote while pregnant with my second child. I wrote this poem mere days before her unexpectedly premature birth. My niece, whom I've never met, is now pregnant with her first child and experiencing the flutters, kicks and punches that signify steady growth of her much-anticipated bundle of joy. I am able to share these milestones with her through the wonder of Facebook, something unheard of just 12 short years ago when this poem was written for my beautiful, limitless Lizzie.

TINY BABE

Tiny babe alive inside me
each new day I feel your dance
Gently moving, stretching, turning
tiny fluttering feet and hands

What part of me will I see in you?
I sit and ponder as you grow
What potential lies within you?
only God in heaven knows

Oh, the joys that here await you
though the sorrows, too, will come
With my love I'll shield and guide you
my sweet, precious little one

Soon the day will come when I will
hold you gently in my arms
And you'll capture hearts of many
with your own peculiar charms

Tiny babe alive inside me
so much lies ahead for you
In this wide, wide world of wonders
The path you travel is up to you

I'll do my best to instruct you
in the wisest course to choose
But in the end I'll have to trust you
And promise to love you, win or lose

Such a rare and wondrous thing
this tiny life inside of me
I thank God daily for the joy
and love
and light
Your life will bring

by: Chere Poole
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