PRAYER

Noah is such a funny child. I need to be better at recording all the silly things he says. We had a family home evening lesson on prayer recently. We try to keep things simple for him and speak to him on his level in these lessons. He is usually trying to stand on his head throughout the lesson, so we have to keep it engaging and to the point. During this lesson we talked about how to start and end a prayer, what to pray for, what we do with our hands, eyes, body during a prayer etc. We also told him that anytime he is afraid or sad he can say a prayer in his head and Heavenly Father will hear it. He has used this against me a few times at bedtime when he wants to just “say it in my head mom…really quietly,” instead of out loud. So since this lesson Noah wants to say prayers of protection, so Heavenly Father will “keep me safe from bad guys” and most recently he has been praying for things he wants. He came to me the other day with a picture of a pirate nutcracker from a book we have. He has an obsession with pirates and nutcrackers…so this was the perfect combo. He pointed to it and said, “mama I am going to pray and ask Jesus to get this pirate nutcracker for me.” He then folded his arms, bowed his head and said a short but sweet prayer asking that a pirate nutcracker be delivered to him. What a kid. I think we need the “what to pray for” part of the lesson again. Love this child!!!
p.s. don't you love this picture. Thanks Allyson!