New Life

Just returned from visiting our newest little Methodist, Samantha Hayes. As a mother and grandmother, I remember the joys, anxieties, frustrations, and the heartfelt love that a new life can evoke. However, as years go by, the sense of God's abiding presence in all of this is richer and fuller. For this I give thanks. Now how can I help this and other young families place God at the center of their lives?

God be in my head, and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes, and in my looking;
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;
God be in my heart, and in my thinking;
God be at my end, and in my departing.
-Sarum Primer, fifteenth century