My youngest is learning to pray.
We pray with her, specifically, in the evenings before I turn out her lights. But she is also learning by watching her sister, her Sunday School teachers, listening to me pray over meals and in the car before I drop her sister off at school.
But I have never, not once prayed to the cat. And neither has my husband or older daughter.
Naomi seems to have, like many verbal three year olds, a slight problem with prepositions. She cannot, at least in prayer, differentiate between “for” and “to”.
So her prayer (to the Christian God, let’s make sure we are all on the same page) sounds something like this:
“Dewwr God,
I pway to Mimi, Papa Rob and to Mamma and Papa. I pway to Hopey and Rosie (the cat) and to Mommy and Daddy. I pway to Chi Chi and to Madelyn and Jordan and Josiah.
AAAmen.”
I don’t know of any Christian tradition, Protestant or Catholic, that advocates prayer to living people (although saintly and righteous) or housebound cats.
Then again, she might be making a three-year-old style statement about society.
Or maybe she’s still just figuring it all out that although it does matter who we pray to, words don’t matter nearly as much as attitude.
That is adorable! My toddler somehow always seems to leave me out of her prayers. I try not to take offense lol…..maybe she thinks I’m already covered by someone else?? Kids are very entertaining!
There is a lady at our church who is mentally disabled and she loves to prayer and at the very end of her prayer, she closes in the name of whoever she’s been praying for…”In Linda’s name, amen.” It’s precious, though!
Now that is sweet. God was certainly smiling when He heard that one.
geetabean – oh yeah, they always seem to leave me out too. they’ll pray for the neighbors dogs but not me.
linda – that is too funny.
cindy – i agree!
My 3-year-old is also starting to show a lot of interest in prayer!
I love it.
When we have kids, I’m looking forward to this…my nieces and nephews praying is precious.
The real question though, is whether Rosie prays?
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That is the sweetest ever!
melt-your-heart sweet.
Precious. I love kid prayers. Sweet and heartfelt.
haha that’s hilarious. gotta love that girl!
also, as a sidenote, my mom used to pray with me everyday before i went to school through high school… it was such an important and special thing… keep it up!
Oh, that is the sweetest darn thing I’ve ever heard.
Maybe I’ll pray to Riley tonight and see if he suddenly starts behaving better. She may be onto something…
so so cute!