Children are as "seedlings"...
As tiny growing trees,
With tender, spreading boughs
Swaying in the breeze.
With nurture they will grow strong roots,
With trunk and limb of swelling size.
And they will grow in inner strength
As of wisdom they apprise.
As they grow in stature
And mature into strong trees,
They'll give shade or bear good fruit.
They lives will surely please.
In every season of their growth
Each tree will be a blessing.
And by the nature of their lives
God's praise will be expressing.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.."
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
© 2008 Arlene Schwartzkopf