Worried

I know I keep saying it, but I’m going to say it again.   I love Sonlight.   Their tag line says “The way you wish you’d been taught.”   They are right.   I love how they use stories to teach.

Part of our school work this week included reading “Granny Han’s Breakfast”, a wonderful story about trusting God.   During the course of the story, Granny Han’s home is robbed.   So, she is without food, as well as money.   She prays “Lord, this is it!   I really don’t care if I eat or not … you know what you want for me, and that’s all I want.   You promised to supply all my needs – but I can’t pretend breakfast is a need at the moment, as I’m not exactly starving! But Lord, I’m asking you to show Oo-lan (Granny Han’s housekeeper)   that you can provide for me…”   Through out the course of the story, the Lord sends many people to Granny’s home with food and money.   All of her needs and wants are met, and her housekeeper gets to be a front-row witness to it all.

After we read the story, I went through some of the discussion questions:

• Do you trust God to provide for all your needs?
• Can you think of ways that you could help God provide for other people?
• Have you ever prayed for God to supply a need and He did so in a wonderful, unexpected way?

We had fun talking through our answers.   I explained to the boys that God had answered my prayer for children with the two of them – and nothing could be more wonderful or unexpected.   The boys decide that they’ve never really asked for God to supply their need, and they resolve to do so.

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Fast-forward to meal time, Tigger says his normal prayer and adds on a line that says: “Please God, I want seven brothers.”   I’m thankful his eyes were closed when he said his prayer because my eyeballs popped out of my head when he said that.   Tigger has been faithful to have the same request, for seven brothers, every time I’ve heard him pray since then.

I figure that Woody counts as one of those brothers, so that means that he’s asking for six more.   Oh, mercy…   We know that God listens to all of his children, but I think that the prayers of little one’s can be especially moving of the Father’s heart.   And frankly, I’m a little worried.