A little while ago Steph got a toddlers book of prayer. It has prayers for all different occasions (starting the day, grace, being thankful, bedtime, sleeping, etc), and she enjoys having me read her prayers (instead of say, a story book at bedtime). The Man isn't a religious fellow, but believes in God, and I thought he would be angry at me 'pushing' religion onto S&R (turns out he's not, is happy for me to keep educating them with what I know, religion included).
One night, Steph asked him to read her some prayers. Oh-oh I thought, and felt the tension build. I forget how many he read (maybe two or three?), but he read them anyway, as that's what Steph wanted.
A week or two later, we were talking about something religious-based, and he told me that as he was reading these prayers, a strange feeling came over him. Unable to quite describe it, but I think, from memory, he said it was a bit like a feeling of love or calmness. Sorry, I know after all that reading, you get to here and I am being totally ambiguous! I just wanted to share that he had had this lovely feeling come to him as he read his four year old daughter prayers.
When he started to read them, he didn't sound all that interested, you know, a bit just like reading a list of words off a page. But, not long into it, and he sounded more like he meant what he was reading. At least, it brought him some peace I think.
Reply With Quote. You can tell God loves it when we pray, it's like He gives us a supernatural joy. I get that feeling when I pray too
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