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A child has
a right to be happy,
To be safe and protected from harm,
To be cradled in arms that love him,
To be free from all stress and alarm.
To expect
to be fed when he’s hungry,
To live in a world without fear,
To spend happy moments just playing,
To know that his parents are near.
So many
today never know this,
They live like a bird on a wire.
Love and protection has vanished,
They live on the edge of a fire.
And
millions of others, before they are born,
Snuffed out in the blink of an eye,
When women who say they have rights of their own,
Decide if they live or they die.
All
children are precious, a gift from above,
Those with us and those yet unborn,
And how they are treated is all up to us,
Protect them, for we have been warned.
“Offend one small child”, the
scripture has said,
“And it would be better for thee,
That a millstone be hanged about your neck,
And be drowned in the depths of the
sea”.
Strong
words you may say, but they come from our God,
It’s a serious matter to Him,
For every small child has God-given rights,
To deny them would be a great sin.
He said,
“Let the children all come unto Me,
And hinder them not in their way,
For the kingdom of Heaven belongs to them”.
Let us guide them so they will not stray.
by David Ronald Bruce Pekrul
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