Kids say the darndest things....

I have 2 great nephews, ages 4 and 5 and 2 great nieces who are age 6. I love talking to them and listening to them talk to one another. It is both entertaining and enlightening.

When Dawson was 3, I was holding him at a church function and he started looking at my earrings. They were a pair of dangly ones and not the turtle ones he had looked at before. He looked at them for a moment and turned to me and said.. "Aunt Cathy...these aren't you turtles. No Dawson, I didn't wear the turtles today. But Aunt Cathy...these are NOT good to look at!"

At church last Sunday morning, Tyler, who is now 4 was in my arms. He suddenly looks up at me and very seriously tells me that "he has drips coming from his eyes." Leslie and I proceeded to giggle in the middle of worship service.

When my nephew Travis was 2 and his brother, Michael was 10 months old, we were all at my parents and Michael had an allergic reaction, which we found out later was to eggs. The back of his head at the base of his skull was quickly swelling. Everyone began rushing around to get Michael to the emergency room and I was going to stay behind with Travis.

I gathered Travis up in my lap and he asked what was wrong. He was a very verbal 2 year old. I explained that Michael was sick and they were taking him to the doctor. He looked up at me with those trusting, innocent eyes and said "Why don't we just pray for him?". In my very adult way I said..we will as soon as they are gone. Travis looked at me again, tone changing to a very serious and stern tone and said "NOW."

It stopped me in my tracks and we did pray right then. We teach our kids that God is the answer and that He heals. And then when we are presented with a crisis we want to call on the doctor first and God later. Is it any wonder that Jesus loved having kids around?

So my prayer for today will be "Lord give me that childlike faith, to believe and trust and to love unconditionally."