It's Your Grace, Lord!

It's my daughter's birthday today, my Lord
Twenty four years back, You gifted her to me
She came two months early, a tiny baby, barely weighing four pounds
I couldn't even hold her in my hand to caress and kiss her face
Wrapped up in tubes and cushioned inside a small incubator
they brought her to show me and wheeled her back in a hurry
to another hospital to give her a better neo-natal care.
The doctor gave me forty eight hours to make sure
she'd pulled it through or not.
She's a girl, a fighter, so don't worry, he comforted me

I was shaken, broken and cracked open
What would I do?
How would I bear to see my little one suffer?
I sought no help, but You, you alone
I bathed Your feet with my tears
Wailed in fear day and night

You, in Your mercy may have looked at me with pity
"O woman of little faith, why are you so fearful?'
you may have said with a smile on Your face.
You, who holds our furture in our hands
Knew it well, then,and now what's out there
for my baby in the future.
You had drawn out her plan in the palm of Your hand
And it would have looked silly to see me cry and panic in vain
Me, who profess to have faith, acting like one who doesn't believe
By my fear, I may have even grieved You a lot
But, You who understands a mother's heart
Kept on giving me comfort and grace through out those years.

Today, when I see my daughter, my heart rejoices with pride
How beautiful and lovely woman, she has grown
And how much love and joy she has brought to me and others.
It's all Your grace my Lord, it's all Your grace.
She's your gift to us, and I pray that we've done a good job with her
By bringing up in the faith and grooming her with love and intergrity.
On this day of her birthday, I pray that You'll bless her with all blessings
So that she'll become a blessing to all around her.
Shield her with Your preotection, guide her in Your path
Teach her Your ways and empower her with Your spirit for Your purpose.

Isn't Knowing God Eternal Life?

Eternal God
We are so blessed to come to know You
Through Your Son Jesus Christ
Who has promised us eternal life
If we abide in Him and He in us.

Is Eternal life, a ticket to heaven
As we believe, brag and take content?
Or is it much more than that
Which our human mind cannot comprehend to explain?

Apostle John in his gospel -chapter 17:3
Has written," Now this is eternal life
that they may know You the only
True God and Jesus Christ, Your Son.

If that's what it truly means
Our eternal life begins here on earth
From the time we got saved from eternal death
And made Christ as our Lord and Saviour.

It does mean that we don't need to wait to go to heaven
To have the blessing of eternal life.
If knowing God and Christ is eternal life
Then it starts here, where I live
Knowing God and rejoicing in His presence
We can do it here on earth
Continue to do it up in heaven .
The only difference, we will be
Flat on our faces before the Lord on theWhite Throne
Singing Hallelujah along with throng of angels.