Thursday, July 22, 2010

Eli's Prayers

Eli has always been very interested in praying. Lately his prayers have taken on a new dimension. We started off with very basic prayers. At meal times he would offer thanks for the food, ask it to be blessed and that was it.

So we started talking about what we should pray for each time. We'd come up with a list of 3-4 things and then Eli would say those in his prayers.
Now he's often spouting of a list, mostly of the 'bad' things that he is thankful don't happen to us.

He will often say 6 or more of these at each family prayer:
Thank you we don't smoke cigarettes.
Thank you we don't have fire in our mouths.
Thank you we don't drink alcohol.
Thank you we don't drink coffee or anything like it.
Thank you for no tornadoes.
Please keep us safe from tornadoes.
Please keep us safe from mosquitoes.
Thank you we don't smoke.
Thank you we don't be in fire.
Thank you firemans can rescue us.

(I just asked Eli what were some of the things he prayed for and he said, 'I know some of the good things. Having the `Spirit and the Holy Ghost, and Jesus and the Fireman!.")

I'm sure there are more, some things we don't understand so as he talks more clearly we will be more and more surprised.

2 comments:

Marlin Palmer said...

Too funny! Trust little Eli. The newpaper photo of Eli and his dad was very cool! It was so nice to visit with Morgan's parents! Nice folks!
Love,
Dad

Cheyenne said...

lol That is hilarious! What funny little guy :)