Beautiful Prayers

Little Ella Grace loves to say some prayers. She blesses our food at dinner time (sometimes before anyone is even at the table) and says her bed time prayer after a Bible story. Lately, she has been praying for the weather. It goes something like this:

Dear God (smack), thank you for Daddy, Mommy, Major and Ella Grace. Thank you for my friends at school and for my teachers at school. Thank you for my friends at church and my teachers at church. God, please pray for this weather that it's not so bad in the morning. No thunder and no lightening God. Okay? I love you God, Amen.

Ella Grace will ask God to help Major mind, or not cry, pray for all of our grandparents. Thank Him for swim days at school or getting to play outside. She does such a great job. One morning last week she said "Momma! We forgot to say a prayer. Say 'Thank you God for savin' our sin from dyin'.'" So, I said a prayer, but I thanked Him for dying to save us from our sin.

This has nothing to do with praying, but I had to share. Yesterday Ella Grace had hat day at school. Her friend Kylie wore an oversized pink cowgirl hat. Ella Grace was explaining it to Daddy at dinner and told him about the feathers around the brim and that the hat lit up. She said "It was unnecessary." It was all I could do to stay in my seat. Jeremy explained that it might have been necessary for Kylie, with a straight face. She is so funny! Not much for flashy things, I suppose.