Simple Prayers

When Aden is allowed to watch a video, one of his favorite videos to watch is about farming. He likes it because of the tractors and other heavy machinery that are featured on it. He refers to this video as his 'tractor video'. He asks almost daily if he can watch the tractor video, and many times the answer is No. He has learned to accept this quite well amazingly. The other morning we sat down to breakfast and were saying our prayers. Aden has become quite good at bowing his head, folding his hands and jabbering things that we can't understand. I guess that is what Mommy and Daddy sound like to him. This day was different though. Among all of the jabbering, we heard two things for the first time that we recognized: 'Tractor Video' and 'Bubu Jim' (bubu is a pidgin word in PNG for grandpa/grandma and Jim refers to one of his missionary uncles, or I guess grandpas). We aren't sure if these two things were separate requests or if he thought Bubu Jim might let him watch the tractor video if the Lord could just bring them together that day... The prayers aren't just at the dinner table. Aden has been known to pray as he is wandering around the house, while he is playing with his toys and even while he is in the bathtub. While they still are not always clear, we are starting to hear more of mommy, daddy, Wiley and of course Bubu Jim. His method is a little different than what you may be used to. After saying Amen, or sometimes in place of Amen, he usually claps his hands and says "Yay!" What a blessing it is to see him beginning to learn that prayer is part of our everyday lives. We seem to have a little prayer warrior on our hands.