A Childs Prayer…
Being that it’s conference weekend, I thought I’d share a quick post about praying. It’s funny how certain “prayer phrases” are adopted by different families. I know that my family has several that are incorporated into almost every prayer. But Hailey and Mallory have invented a few phrases of their own that I thought I would share.
One that Hailey frequently uses (I think it started when we told her to include more in her prayer than blessing the food) is to pray for our house. Now, this in itself is fine, but the thing I find amusing is how she says it:
“Please bless our house so we can live in it.”
I guess that’s the purpose of our house though so it’s hard to argue with it.
Mallory, on the other hand, has adopted a phrase that we’re not quite sure what it means. Initially this came out of some confusion as to what we were instructing her to say. Early in her praying career, we were leading her in a prayer one day and told her to say “thank you for this day”, but what she heard was something else. She now knows to say “thank you for this day” but she still uses the “incorrect” phrase quite often. But I suppose there’s nothing wrong with saying:
“We thank you for this pray.”
I suppose the opportunity to pray is indeed something to be thankful for. Silly kids.
