We have family prayer pretty much every night. Some nights run great and all goes smoothly and everyone is off to bed and some nights don't go quite as well and of course there are the occassional nights here and there when someone starts chuckling during the prayer. I have to admit that this week it was me who was laughing. Sometimes kids say the craziest things even when they get older.
Several days ago we tye dyed t-shirts. The girls thought is would be fun to wear the shirts for Santa pictures and Sam was talked into the plan. We have never tye dyed shirts before so it was a quick but entertaining few minutes because none of us really new what we were doing. We wrapped the shirts in saran wrap and left them to sit overnight. As we knelt down to prayer that night Sam said "please bless the shirts to do whatever it is they need to do."
Two days later as Mollie was praying she said "please bless that our Christmas budget will increase so that I can have everything I want."
Finally, Mollie has a good friend named Chandler who just had surgery. Sam quite frequently teases Mollie about her friends who happen to be boys. Well in the prayer Mollie said "please bless Chandler that he will recover quickly" just then we all hear Sam very quietly say "ooooooooooooooooooooooh Mollie." Megan and I started laughing and couldn't stop. Mollie quickly ended the prayer. Once we quit laughing we proceeded to get Sam in trouble for teasing his sister, especially during a prayer. His comment was "what, I did it with the utmost respect and reverance.
I love coming together for family prayer!
3 comments:
This post made me laugh...hard! I love those times when you can laugh (with reverance of course) at our children's prayers. We do it frequently with London...now she pretends to help Halle with saying the prayer, and whispers in Halle's ear and then pretends to be Halle's voice...it's so comical, but she's dead serious!!!
Thanks for sharing!
So FUNNY! It reminds me of how our family prayers used to go. Typically we wouldn't be through witht he "Amen" and Mike and Andy would attack each other, rolling, and wrestling on the living room floor. You definitely are getting brownie points in heaven for trying to teach correct principles. Maybe more than the prayers, your kids will remember how they had fun with each other, in spite of having to kneel next to each other.
He didn't say that...REALLY!
We never have prayers like that...REALLY!
My kids quote memorized scripture and then quietly compliment eachother before we say our prayer...REALLY!
Tye Dye shirts...REALLY! Your a super Mom
Love you guys...Cute Christmas pic. REALLY! No I mean it REALLY!
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