Comments on: Kids and rituals http://tatumweb.com/blog/2005/09/04/kids-and-rituals/ Pentecostal Rumination and Review Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:24:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jennifer http://tatumweb.com/blog/2005/09/04/kids-and-rituals/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Jennifer Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:46:38 +0000 http://tatumweb.com/blog/index.php/2005/09/04/kids-and-rituals/#comment-46 Tonight it was my turn for the nightly rituals and I want everyone to be proud of how AJ's prayer evolved so quickly to current events. It went something like this: <blockquote>"Dear Jesus, Thank you for mommy and daddy and Kiki and Jordyn and Aunt Lindsay far far away in Saipan. Please help the people in Indiana that had a hurricane. Help them obey their mommies and daddies. Help them remember that you will help them if they want. I love you Jesus, Amen."</blockquote> OK, so he didn't get the state right. But at four yeas old, there isn't always much of a difference between Indiana and Louisiana/Mississippi. What amazed me was the sincerity he showed on his scrunched-up little face and how he decided not to finish his "thank-you-for" list of family members, but instead was worried about hurricane victims. We have an amazingly tender son. Sometimes. Jennifer Tonight it was my turn for the nightly rituals and I want everyone to be proud of how AJ’s prayer evolved so quickly to current events. It went something like this:

“Dear Jesus,

Thank you for mommy and daddy and Kiki and Jordyn and Aunt Lindsay far far away in Saipan. Please help the people in Indiana that had a hurricane. Help them obey their mommies and daddies. Help them remember that you will help them if they want. I love you Jesus,

Amen.”

OK, so he didn’t get the state right. But at four yeas old, there isn’t always much of a difference between Indiana and Louisiana/Mississippi. What amazed me was the sincerity he showed on his scrunched-up little face and how he decided not to finish his “thank-you-for” list of family members, but instead was worried about hurricane victims.

We have an amazingly tender son. Sometimes.

Jennifer

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