Is It Sinking In?

Anyone who is a parent knows that every decision that you ever make effects your children. Whether it's what they eat for dinner or what sort of discipline that you use. Something that I have always done is talk to Mason about God and Heaven. I have told him that Jesus died for our sins but to a three year old, it's confusing. I read him Bible stories whenever he will sit and listen, we sing children's praise songs and I take him to church every Sunday. These things have always been important to me. He thinks that Heaven is sorta like outerspace. He knows that PaPa is in Heaven. I have told him that he will see PaPa again one day when he goes to Heaven. But you never know if children as young as Mason are really soaking it all in until......

Bright and early this morning, Mason and I went for a walk. He was running and fell, resulting in a lot of tears and scrapped hands. Hardly bad enough to see but enough to upset him. I put a bandaide on each hand. He looked up at me with tears running down his face and said, "Mommy, will you please pray for my hands?" I knelt in the kitchen beside Mason and I asked God to please make his hands feel better. The tears stopped and off to church we went. Mason left the bandaides on his hands until we got to church. At that point he took them off, bowed his head and said, "Dear God, thank you so much for healing my hands so that I can play in children's church."

Is that not the most precious thing ever? What a great way to start our Sunday, with a small miracle from God! And confirmation that what I am trying to teach Mason is actually sinking in! Praise God!