Thank you Jesus for mine owie

We've been meaning to post this story for awhile now, but we've just never gotten around to it. We've tried really hard to teach Sheinah that God can heal her "owies" and that she doesn't always need medicine. Apparently, Sheinah has learned that lesson. When we were in Tennessee, she fell off the slide and kind of hurt her knees. She immediately asked us to pray for her owie....again, and again, and again. Later on that trip, Melissa was having some of her typical tummy troubles and Sheinah asked if she could pray for mommy's owie.

The best example though, came just last week. For whatever reason, Sheinah decided that mommy had an owie when we were driving home from daycare and asked if she could pray for it. From the backseat, her little voice said "Thank you Jesus for mommy's owie, make it better, amen." Then she said that she had an owie and prayed a similar prayer "Thank you Jesus for mine owie, make it better, amen."

At first glance, it may be easy to just chalk this up to a child's misunderstanding of how to pray. However, if you think about it, it seems that Sheinah might have a better understanding of praying that we grownups do. In Philipians 4:6: Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Sheinah's prayer was the perfect example of doing that...whether or not she meant to.

Thank you Jesus for mine Sheinah and her child-like faith :)