In our house church, we girls rotate teaching Bible class for the kids. We are currently on a three week rotation where we are in charge of teaching. We typically teach the same story for those 3 weeks that we teach and prepare a craft. Of course, there is singing too!These past few weeks has been Olivia's rotation. She is teaching Daniel and focusing on the praying aspect. Canaan came in from class the first Sunday and gave us this pose with his hands folded and head semi-bowed and said that Daniel was "prayering" in the lion's den! It was so cute. We have also been working on praying with him at home. Though he is still very shy about praying in with anyone outside our family, he will say short prayers with us. Then today, he had all his cars and trucks lined up and said he wanted to "prayer" for his cars. So, he sat down in front of all of them, bowed his head, closed his eyes and folded his hands. With a little prompting from Gran-Nan (he got a little shy with her in the room), he thanked God for all his cars and trucks and choo-choos and helicopters. A little later, he had them all lined up in a different place and prayed again for them all. It was adorable! Afterwards he told me, "Mommy, I prayered for them!"
3 comments:
Excellent time to begin teaching about prayer. Why is it kids are shy about prayer? Do they instinctively know it is something intimate?
that is sooo cute and awesome that he is getting the hang of it. Aspen is kinda the same way. When we pray at night with her we just start out with, thank you God..." then she says Nanny, Mimi, Daddy, and then some random thing like spaghetti, bubbles...I think it is great that at a young age they are beginning to grasp that praying is a time to talk about things we are thankful for and not just for requests. Anyway. Your boys are just precious! Love you, Nan
That is so sweet! Canaan is adorable. So is Max. I pray all is well with you!
~Elizabeth Ball~
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