New Life

(My son-in-law with my first grandchild)

I just became a grandfather for the first time when my grandson was born earlier this morning. I am very proud of my daughter! It was a hard labor.  Thanks be to God that mother and baby are well!

Now Thank We All Our God

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;

Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,

With ever joyful hearts and blessèd peace to cheer us;

And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed;

And free us from all ills, in this world and the next!

All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given;

The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven;

The one eternal God, whom earth and Heaven adore;

For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

~Words: Martin Rinkart & Music: Johann Crüger (re-posted)