Let the little children come to me....

A pet peeve of mine is teaching children "memorized" prayers. I want children to learn that their faith is a personal faith and so we have encouraged our daughters, since they began to talk, to formulate their own prayers to God. At the close of our family devotional time each evening we let the girls each pray. Grace has been a pretty avid prayer since she was 2 and a half or 3. She loves to pray and she can pray some amazing prayers at times. Kessed, however, has just recently decided that she needed to begin praying. She listens to her big sister a lot and often copies her, but she is also beginning to develop her own personal ability to converse with God. It's pretty amazing to watch. Tonight after she prayed, we thought it was so cute that we had to get it on video for the sake of archiving it. We asked her to pray again once the camera was rolling. She obliged (which is definitely not a guarantee when you're talking about Kessed) and I love the video. I've posted it below.

In case you don't speak Kessedese and need a translation, she says: "Jesus thank you for today. Help us. In Jesus Name, amen." I love watching my girls begin to grow in their faith.