Prayers - by Ethan

My kids have all had times when they LOVE to pray and pray very well (not that you can say a bad prayer in my opinion. Ethan however is taking this to a whole new level. This boy is ahead of my other kids for his age by leaps and bounds, but it really has hit us in the last week, just how much so. Last night as Ethan, Donna, and Pa sat down to eat, Ethan stopped Pa and repremended him for not praying, then he went on to say the prayer.

Last night, I was tucking Ethan in, daddy normaly does it, so I'm not 100% on the right order we do things in. hehe As I was leaning in to give him a kis, he pushed me back and said "PAY mommy, PAY!!" with his sweet little hands folded... (totaly melts my heart!!! So I said "do you want mommy pray, or Ethy(our nickname for him) pray." He looked at me like I was nuts and said "Me, Ethan pray". So he closed his little 2-year-old eyes and cluched his little fingers even more tightly together as he said this prayer "Jesus, thank you mommy, daddy, ICE!!, kitty, blanky, (something I didn't understand), AMEN!!!" and he grinned for ear to ear. The ice was because he has become almost addicted to his sippy with ice in it. It is almost like a blanket or or stuffed toy to other kids.

How simple, and heartfelt.... Some days we sit and don't know how to start, or we fill our prayer with wants and needs. Here is little Ethan, he has nothing that is truely his own. He has to trust that he will get all of his needs from us. He doesn't ask for anything, he knows we will take care of that, he just tells us that he loves us, and prayes his thanks. How very much our Heavenly Father must love those prayers of thanks and love... As I type this my fingers have started to feel numb, and my heart hurts... how many times have I gone to my Heavenly father with my needs, and forgotten to just give him my love and thanks! Yet I get frusterated with my own children when they do that to me.


Thank you Lord for Ethan and the leasons that you have taught me thorugh him. Thank you... I know you love me, you know my needs... but how often do I tell you, just how much I love you? I love you Lord, I truely Love you!