On A Wing and A Prayer

Posted on February 27, 2009 
Filed Under Fathering, Humor, Life, Parenting, Personal

They were in a green kid’s wagon, perched at the top of a hill. It was a classic “Calvin and Hobbes” moment, in which the slope was steep and the anxiety was high. Would they survive the plunge?

My daughter Saige looked back at her little brother, and with a somewhat serious tone suggested this was going to be a dangerous run down the hill, so he had better offer a prayer. The beauty of a 5 year-old’s petition in a moment of fear and pending disaster…Zane prayed:

…”Dear Jesus, thank you for this food.”

I love it!

Of course, they survived that perilous adventure, but I’m not sure how much of an effect that particular prayer had on the outcome. A meal-time blessing didn’t exactly match the need of the moment.

Still, it makes me wonder. How often is it that my feeble prayers aren’t quite suited to the occasion? Hmm. I’ll have to ponder that.

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One Response to “On A Wing and A Prayer”

  1. Leah on March 2nd, 2009 9:59 am

    Thanks! I needed this today! (Now I have to go do some pondering myself.) :)

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