The girls have really embraced the ability to insert personal intentions of their own during morning and evening prayers. They routinely pray for a friend of ours who has lost his wife to cancer, they pray for their grandparents in Texas… and for their cows and crop. One of the younger three will also pray for their grandparents in Missouri, asking that they will have a good hunting season. This is rapidly followed by a prayer by my eldest for the animals being hunted, that they would get safely away.
Last night, my mother (one of the grandparents in Missouri) called to visit and told me of the days hunting… They had gone bow hunting, and come across a lovely buck that my Dad decided to shoot. He gets all set up, good shot, pulls the trigger on the crossbow and…. NOTHING! The bow wouldn’t fire! The deer is alerted to them and gets away, much to his disgust. At the time of the call, he was sulking in his easy chair. *big grin* I informed her of the girls habitual prayers and she sent them a message… NO MORE PRAYERS without her approval! lol…
How fun it was to relate the story to the children… to show them that God hears their prayers and answers them… What a joy to see the children growing in faith… and to hear their precious prayers.
O Lord, let me come to you even as do my children… with such exuberant, perfect, complete faith and trust.
