"Dear Lord"

Every night before dinner, our family prays for the food and for other people in our lives. Usually, Emma is too distracted by her "spabetti" to really focus. Tonight, she was playing with her stuffed cat, Cleo, and we overheard her praying. Eager to seize the moment, we asked if she would pray at dinner tonight and she jumped at the chance. Her prayer went something like this, "Dear Lord - thank you for this food and for mommy and daddy and Ethan and Nani and Papa and for this food . . . AMEN!"

Tonight was a great reminder for us that, as parents, we need to continually and purposefully be encouraging the things of God in our house. Emma loves learning, and we want to use that to teach her the good news of the gospel of Christ. Of course the Holy Spirit will have to bring her to repentance and faith, but we want to plant as many seeds as we can in her and Ethan's little lives because there is nothing we desire more as parents than to see them both become believers.

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."

Deuteronomy 6:4-7

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