Thanks for the reminder.

 

                       Ella loves clothes experimentation.

This morning when Jack went to wake up the girls, he checked in Ella’s crib.  We get up  at  6:00 AM around here, so generally we let the babies sleep in—and sleeping away she was. 

Naked. 

Without so much as a diaper. 

Jack comes out and tells me. 

“Should I put a diaper on her at least?”

“Definitely.  But let’s hope she stays asleep for a little while.”

Needless to say, Ella was up with us early that morning, happy and chipper as can be.  The moment Jack started to put on her diaper, she stirred and said, “Good morning Dad!  Want some yogurt?” 

Well, family prayer and scripture study started a bit rushed and  not quite as happy as it should have this morning.  I know that we always hear in church the old line of, “It’s okay if family prayer and scripture study aren’t that spiritual as long as you do them” but I still feel like we should TRY to make them meaningful. :) However, a tiff in the bathroom between our lovely older daughters had caused some friction that was still unresolved. 

But, we pressed forward, kneeling down and ready to go.  Ella was lying on the couch and not budging to join us at the time.  Then, suddenly, she got up.  We were very happy to see that she had decided to be a big girl and kneel down to pray.  But, that wasn’t her plan at all.  She boldly marched over to the corner of the room, looked us all squarely in the faces, and began to wave her arms like she was leading a song.  Then she said, “Child God.  Child God!”  What else could we do?  We all sang the song “I am a Child of God” together and it seemed as if the Spirit decide it would join us this morning after all.  Afterwards, Ella knelt down beautifully for prayer with our family and we had a much better time worshipping together. 

What a blessing she woke up naked after all!  Thanks sweetie!