The blessings of a child

Parenting is a long-term project that never really ends. It's an intensive, hands-on calling the ridiculous work hours and no time off for good behavior. If it paid by the hour, I need no retirement plan at all.
Parenting's rewards are not always what I expect. Often they are priceless. An older brother shelters his pesky sister from a bully, willing to take any blows directed at her. A grown man kneels in front of his grandfather's chair to help him open a present while they talk of days gone by. A daughter brings her widowed mother on a family vacation to enjoy the grandchildren's reaction to Disneyland.
Thank you, Father, for these children and all the blessings they had brought in the past and will continue to bring in the future.....Amen

And let us not weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9