Prayers

Sometime last summer we started doing prayers with Anna at bedtime. Some nights they are focused and concise but more often they are the stream of consciousness ramblings of a 3 year old. I often joke that it's like we're attending the Academy Awards and the orchestra is about to cut her off!

We usually start with thanking Jesus for the day she had. Today she thanked Jesus for the "wonderful phones in my classroom". Tonight that was all she wanted to thank him for but we often have a litany of thank yous. - "thank you Jesus for the watermelon, thank you Jesus for the butterflies on my wall, thank you Jesus for my bunny...."

Once the thank you portion is concluded we then move on to asking God to bless the important people in our lives or people who are in need of some special prayers. It usually goes like this:

"God Bless....

Mommy

Daddy

Bridgie

Gaga

Uncle Adam

Gramma Jean

Nana

Papa

Jamie

Clarence

Brady

Hayden

Big Chris

Little Chris

Lil' Buster with a monka face and a pigga nose

Amen."

We've discovered however, that we need to do some more work with her on the whole Jesus/God thing. Yesterday we were talking about Little Chris who was crying at school. We were worried he would have a hard time today on the first day of school and talked about how maybe if we asked Jesus he could help Little Chris get through today. She stops, then turns to me and says "Mom - but Jesus is stuck to the wall! How can he be there to help Little Chris?"

As Zach said, at least she gets points for paying attention at church :)