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Lovely lady dressed in blue

I just found this very old little prayer card while cleaning up my desk.

God sends me little things like this to encourage and sustain me when I’m having a hard time (like today). Interestingly, my scripture meditation this morning was on coming to Christ with the faith and trust of a little child. And lo and behold, this sweet prayer card helped me to get into more of a child’s trusting mindset.

Mary knows what all of us mothers are going through. I forget that. Here, she reminds me again to take my struggles and joys all back to Christ–with the faith of a child who knows her Father will take care of her.

“To Our Lady”
Lovely lady dressed in Blue, 
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little Boy, 
Tell me what to say!
Did you lift Him up, sometimes, 
Gently, on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way Mother does to me? 
Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?
Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things–
Little things that happen?
And
do the Angels’ wings
Make a noise? And can He hear 
Me if I speak low? 
Does He understand me now? 
Tell me–for you know.
Lovely lady dressed in blue, 
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little Boy, 
And you know the way. 
I unashamedly teared up when the prayer asks her, “O! And did He cry?”
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