Wrap Your Arms Around Me
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I’ve grown in knowledge, skill, and love
and with your blessings from above,
I‘ll learn to trust and know and be
and in my own time, I’ll learn to be “me”.
I’ll make those I love so proud of me.
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About the Book
Wrap Your Arms Around Me presents a prayer in the form of a poem. It seeks to nurture a child’s relationship with God from an early age. In this way, little ones will know God as a protector, teacher, and comforter. Including colorful illustrations and a lively meter, this verse can serve as a bedtime story to help children sleep, and it allows adults in the child’s life to find peace in resolving the day.
Offering a bedtime prayer in poetic form, this verse entrusts children into God’s arms for the night and provides peace for readers of all ages.
I’ll need you to guide me on my path, I know, so help me to feel you beside me as I go.
Thank you, God, for this day.
Wrap your arms around me and keep me safe and healthy till the new day is here.
About the Author
Patricia Rodden Henderzahs was born in Peoria, Illinois, but she moved to southern Indiana as a teenager. A retired pediatric registered nurse, she and her husband of fifty years, Greg, have two children and four grandchildren. She has always tried to model her belief that faith and family are everything. Drawing on experiences of a forty-four year nursing career and many years as mother and grandmother, Patricia fulfilled her longtime goal of writing a meaningful bedtime children’s book.