Blessing

For I’s baby blessing service at church yesterday I put some verses from Ecclesiastes together and read them:

But if there is a time to weep, there is also a time to laugh. If there is a time to mourn, there is also a time to dance.

This is a time of happiness and joy, this springtime of new life.

I, as you came from your mother’s womb, you shall go again, naked as you came, and you shall take nothing for your toil that you may carry away in your hand. So it will be good and fitting that you eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which you toil under the sun the few days of your life that God has given you, for this is your lot.

If generations come and generations go, and the earth remains forever;
If the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises;
If the wind blows to the south and turns to the north, and round and round it goes, ever returning on its course;
If all streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full, and to the place the streams come from, there they return again;

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

May the light of your life be sweet, for it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.