Prayer.....Family Tradition
Prayer is as essential to my life as......breathing!
Our family knows one thing about life....that praying to God, inviting Him into our activities as a family, is a 'known given'. The young ones learned early to bow their heads and 'thank God, by 'saying the 'blessing' before eating their food.
But of course, I 'come from' a praying family....Always the 'blessing before meals' was a southern tradition of our faith.
Just wouldn't feel right to eat without first 'blessing the food' as my Uncle Os used to say....
Our Joshua learned early that everyone holds hands and 'says the blessing' before eating...
Now I love to hear him 'say the blessing'.....even 1 yr. old 'rascal' Dylan knows the blessing routine. What a joy it is to hear a child pray.
I remember Carla when she was about 6 or 7 during a family prayer time and we reminded everyone to 'pray for Uncle Rich' who was in the Desert Storm Gulf War in 1990-91.
Carla began by saying, "Lord, please help Uncle Rich as he rides the camels in the desert" and everyone cracking up laughing...I'm sure God did too!
After all, where do you think we got our 'sense of humor' from if we are 'made in His image' as it says in Genesis 1:26-28...."Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature....God created human beings, reflecting God's nature, He created them male and female..." Thank you, Lord, for a 'sense of humor' being part of your 'nature' reflected in us.... .
Nena Lynn, teaches Joshua to pray before eating when he is 1 year old.
JJ will be 7 on July 13th and I love to hear him 'say the blessing'......
Joshua N O W.....This is what 'Happy' look like!
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