Prayer

Parker is attending preschool sponsered by a Presbyterian church in Tyrone. One of my fears of sending my child to another denomination's church would be the memorized prayers that sometimes those in other churches use. I can remember visiting one of my friends from church, when I was younger and her brother would say "grace."

So imagine my surprise when I ask Parker to say the blessing and he begins reciting

God is Good, God is Great.
Let us thank him for our food.
By his hands we are fed,
Let us thank him for our daily bread.

And to top it off, Preston now recites God is Good, God is Great right along with Parker.

The surprise has even been better when we visited my folks and my siblings look at me, and I say that is how the Presbyterian's bless the food.

So maybe I haven't done the best at setting the example for the order of prayer in our home. We try to bless our food, sometimes the boys close their eyes and other times they are munching away. One time while Parker was blessing the food, Preston was chowing down and Parker had to take a break in the middle of his short prayer for a drink. You gotta love kids.


We are taught that prayers should come from the heart and to stay away from a "memorized prayer." One that my parents used was

Dear Heavenly Father
Thank you for this day.
Bless this food for our good.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

To a kid this is kind of the same deal. The same words recited before eating, however in this case we are addressing Heavenly Father and closing in Jesus's name.

We have tried not to get real excited about the God is Good prayer. When Parker blesses the food, we offer 2 blessings on the food.

This picture is from the 2nd day of school, we were running late for a first day of school picture. On a side note, Parker loves school. He has a great teacher and it is a great group of kids there. I have made new friends with the mom's there.