Prayer Time

Mommy: Tonight you asked me to lay in your bed with you during night-night time. I curled myself into the toddler bed with you. I realized that your eyes were open and you were just looking at me. I started speaking words of blessing over you like, "God made you special," "You are beautiful," "I can't wait to see what God is going to do in your life," etc. I started to talk about your day. I asked about if you liked dinner and you said, "I like ice cream," which is what you had for dessert. I mentioned going to G-momo and Guffaw's house and you talked about washing the car and playing with marbles. I explained that G-momo and Guffaw were going to be moving to a new house and pretty soon we would need to say good-bye to the house they are living in right now.

We discussed more things, including who was big and little in our family (you brought that up), and then I said that it was time to go to sleep and I got out of bed to leave. You asked, "Pray?" I figured Daddy had already prayed with you but I figured more prayer couldn't be too bad even if it was a delay tactic for going to sleep.

I started thanking God for you and saying some of my normal night-night prayer topics for you. You chimed in with people to pray for and so I would pray for them for about a sentence or two before you would say another name. At one point you said my name and so I was asking God to help me be the best mommy I could be and to give me patience and love. Instead of chiming in with another name you said, "God made you." I was caught by surprise by your comment and realized it was like you were giving me a blessing. You proceeded to say, "God made Daddy. God made me."

During the prayer you mentioned G-momo's house which is something you say a lot during prayer. I was praying that their house would sell and that the family that moved into the house would love it, and that G-momo and Guffaw would find a new house. You said, "God bring a house." What struck me by this comment was I hadn't used that wording, "bring a house," those were your own thought up words connected.

I find some of the things you say to be so interesting and poignant in the moment.