Children's prayers
Sep. 12th, 2005 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mommydamaMari seems to truly enjoy going to church. She is the only one who asks when we are going again, and wants to go with me when I go to Vespers. She seems to enjoy the peace of it and always, always joins me when I am doing prayers at the icon corner, voluntarily.
Luci, today, came running past where I was working as if she were on some kind of mission and when she noticed I was watching her, called over her shoulder "I goin' to pray!" She went to the icon corner, stopped for a brief, respectful moment and then, gazing intently at the icon of Christ, began singing "Jesus loves me".
Zoe, out of nowhere, has most of the Our Father prayer memorized. I've never worked on it specifically or anything. She just suddenly started saying it with me when we pray. A few days ago she even asked what some of the words meant, like "What are trespasses?". After I answered all her questions about it, she really seemed to get it and tonight, as we were praying before bed, she shushed me so she could say it herself. She got stuck a few times and a one or two word prompt put her right back on track.
My childrens' faith often puts me to shame. I often wonder who is teaching whom here. (Did I get that grammatically correct?)
Luci, today, came running past where I was working as if she were on some kind of mission and when she noticed I was watching her, called over her shoulder "I goin' to pray!" She went to the icon corner, stopped for a brief, respectful moment and then, gazing intently at the icon of Christ, began singing "Jesus loves me".
Zoe, out of nowhere, has most of the Our Father prayer memorized. I've never worked on it specifically or anything. She just suddenly started saying it with me when we pray. A few days ago she even asked what some of the words meant, like "What are trespasses?". After I answered all her questions about it, she really seemed to get it and tonight, as we were praying before bed, she shushed me so she could say it herself. She got stuck a few times and a one or two word prompt put her right back on track.
My childrens' faith often puts me to shame. I often wonder who is teaching whom here. (Did I get that grammatically correct?)
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Date: 2005-09-12 07:56 pm (UTC)2. Yes, that was grammatically correct. I think. ;)