OK, last alphabetical thought, I promise. (See the last two entries for that to make sense.)

I just throw this out there as a little aside.

When our kids were little, but school age, this is one way I used to pray with them. We’d think of things to thank God for using the alphabet. Someone would start and the next person got to do the next letter, and so on. But again, the rules were that nothing could be repeated. So if someone thanked God for dogs, the next person to land on “D” could not use dogs again.

They had so much fun with it that we would go through the alphabet two or three times a night, and then I would leave and turn off the light saying that they needed to go through the alphabet one more time on their own. Which usually produced sleep in a short amount of time.

Of course sometimes it got a little silly…but I think God was laughing too. And I suspect, if Mary had served it, Jesus would have been thankful for Captain Crunch when he was a kid too.

This is my friend Moriah. It sounds totally adolescent, but I spent a long time hoping that she would be my friend someday. Now that she is two, she talks to me and smiles at me. Click this link for a video of Moriah saying the Lord’s Prayer with her mom.

Jesus told us that if we could become like a little child we could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Once in awhile when I am praying, I know that I have touched something special… maybe a bit of heaven. Is that the moment of child-likeness?

So, I want to learn to pray with someone I love, and laugh a little while I do it. But mostly I want to say, “I love you too Jesus!”