Christening Poems

Searching for the Christening Poems or readings for a naming ceremony for your precious new addition to the family. This joyous occasion is a time for celebrations, gifts and cards and here are some of the verses for you to use for non commercial purpose FREE of charge.

Christening Poems

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May the Lord always walk with you
Along lifes' blessed beach,
His footprints there beside your own
Always within reach.

May he carry you when the load gets too heavy
For truth and integrity your name to bear
and that your needs never overflows the levy.
Always, always remember that the Lord is there.

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First came love
Then came marriage
Then came (name)
In a baby carriage
Now's the time
To make it all complete
And to hold the Christening
Of this child so sweet

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Precious one,
So small,
So sweet,
Dancing in on angel feet
Straight from Heaven’s brightest star
What a miracle you are!

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On Children

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might

that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Kahlil Gibran

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Zuni Indian Prayer

Now this is the day.
Our child,
Into the daylight
You will go standing.
Preparing for your day.
Our child, it is your day,
This day.
May your road be fulfilled.
In your thoughts may we live,
May we be the ones whom your thoughts will embrace,
May you help us all to finish our roads.

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Christening Poems