Hello Friends,
My grandma, Dorothy Legg, passed away peacefully yesterday. So today we are going to read a poem she loved, written by my great grandmother Pearle Legg. This poem was published in Pearl Legg’s 1963 collection I Was Musing About… Many members of my family also have a framed copy of this poem hanging in our homes, a gift from my grandma, the lines tying us all together.
Enjoy.
Ællen
My grandma, Dorothy Legg, passed away peacefully yesterday. So today we are going to read a poem she loved, written by my great grandmother Pearle Legg. This poem was published in Pearl Legg’s 1963 collection I Was Musing About… Many members of my family also have a framed copy of this poem hanging in our homes, a gift from my grandma, the lines tying us all together.
Enjoy.
Ællen
For Your New Home
God bless this house; our folks live here.
It is their dwelling so is dear
To them and us, and may we pray
That Thou wilt live here with them every day?
May this new home enrich the life of each
May goodness, grace and joy be goals to reach.
In hardship, heartache or in pain
May they seek Thee, wilt Thou sustain?
We do not ask to see Thy total plan
For all their lives, but day by day we can
As when the green leaves rise from loam
See growth revealed. GOD BLESS THIS HOME.
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God bless this house; our folks live here.
It is their dwelling so is dear
To them and us, and may we pray
That Thou wilt live here with them every day?
May this new home enrich the life of each
May goodness, grace and joy be goals to reach.
In hardship, heartache or in pain
May they seek Thee, wilt Thou sustain?
We do not ask to see Thy total plan
For all their lives, but day by day we can
As when the green leaves rise from loam
See growth revealed. GOD BLESS THIS HOME.
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