Simply Mel(Formerly Mama Monoblogs)

Faith Like A Child

Matthew 18:2-4

Then Jesus called a little child to Him,set him in the midst of them
and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

The setting: My kitchen. I'm doing dishes. Katelyn comes in the kitchen as starts talking all about her block creations(see pictures below) and going to a planetarium and this and that. Talking my ears off! Then suddenly she stops and we start this conversation.(Written from the best of my memory from two days ago! Ah!)

K: Mama, is Jesus going to take me to Heaven?
Me: Well, Jesus is going to take everyone who believes in Him to Heaven
K: I want to believe in Jesus so He can take me to Heaven
Me: Ok! You can believe in Jesus. All you have to do is tell Jesus you believe in Him and ask Him into your heart
K: Ok, I want to do that right now.( Then she closed her eyes, folded her hands.)
K: Jesus, I believe in you. And I want you to come into my heart and take me to Heaven. And I love you very, very much.
Me(crying tears of joy but trying not to show her so she won't be concerned): Sweetie! That's great! I'm so happy! Jesus is soo happy too!
K: Is Jesus going to take me to Heaven now?
Me: He will take you to Heaven when it's the right time.

And so the conversation went. I was so amazed and inspired by her simple, child-like faith. It was so pure and innocent. Just the way Jesus asks our faith to be. There were no strings attached. No doubts. Just pure faith that if she believed in Jesus He would take her to Heaven.

What a blessing it was to see that and be a part of that. What a great lesson to us jaded adults.

I added some videos from that day for your(meaning my mom's) enjoyment.

Have a blessed day. I hope this post blessed your heart today.

Conversations With Katelyn

 

Katelyn has been very interested in babies here lately. She has a large Dora doll that she wraps up in a blanket and is constantly rocking and putting to sleep. Why she doesn't pick an actual baby doll to play with I have no idea. This Dora doll comes up to my knees!

Anyway, yesterday after nap Katelyn asked if we could please get a real baby sister with black hair like Dora and could we please call her "Dora" as well. I told her that  one day God might give her another baby sister so she said "Can we please, please go to the grocery store and get a baby? PLEASE?"

 

So I told her that grocery stores don't sell babies. And she stuck her hands out questioningly, rolled her eyes and in an exasperated tone said ......

" Wellll, where do people sell BABIES??"

When I told her people don't sell babies and that God puts babies in mommies' bellies and they grow in there and then it's time to go to the hospital where the doctors take out the babies. That seemed to be a good enough answer for her. For a second. The she asked the big one-
 
"How to babies get in mommies' bellies? (seriously? already?)

I just told her that God puts them in their bellies when mommies and daddies pray for them. That seemed to satisfy her curiosity. For now.

 But, oh boy,  I know I'm in trouble when it comes to that girl!

But I still love her. To pieces.

Conversations Prayers With Katelyn

Place: Madelyn's room(where we read bedtime stories together)

Date and Time: Tonight at bed time.

Daddy's turn to pray. Katelyn is supposed to repeat after him to get more comfortable in praying, since she has been refusing to pray on her own here lately.

Daddy: Dear Heavenly Father

K: Dear Heav'ly Father

Daddy: Thank you for  forgiven sin

K:Thank you Lord for 'given sin

Daddy: And we know how much you love us, Lord

K: and..... you know how much we love us

 

I know it brings a smile to God's face when young children pray.

Priceless.

Anatomy Conversations With Katelyn

Katelyn has been very curious and interested in a lot of stuff lately. One of them being anatomy. She has started noticing that we are all different. I won't go into detail but she has been asking a lot of different questions about different parts of the body. Anywho, I've been pretty open with her about female anatomy since she is a girl and I am not too modest around her. So, yesterday, she started arching her back and feeling her shoulder blades. I don't think she realized she had something that stuck out back there. So she called me over to show me that she had arched one shoulder back, had one hand up and touching the shoulder blade behind her and said " Look mama! When I do this my big nipple sticks out!"

Apparently since she has seen that girls have breasts that stick out in the front she must have them in the back too. Except...bigger.

Conversations With Katelyn And A Real Eye Opener

Me: Hey Katelyn, maybe if you picked up all these toys off your floor you wouldn't be tripping over them so much

Katelyn: That's ok mom. I'm fine with them being all over my floor.

Glad that's cleared up.

 

Although I got a good kick out of that conversation I was ashamed by what I heard not long after the funny one above. There is no better way to get a glimpse of how your children see you, their life and family than through their play. Katelyn was being her usual bossy self  playing going to school, getting on the bus and visiting Nana and Papa's house with Madelyn. Amidst the " Madelyn no! That's not the car, this is the car" and " Mama! Madelyn is hitting me!!!" I heard Katelyn say these things to Madelyn:

(Madelyn had been fussing and fighting with Katelyn)  " Madelyn! I said no! No means NO!!" 

and  

" Come and pick these up RIGHT NOW! Madelyn did you HEARD me?"

and

"Madelyn! Stop it! You're interrupting me!"

 

My amusement was quickly fading by this point. And then the clincher:

" Ugh. Madelyn! I don't have time to play games with you. I need to go".

 

Oh Lord. Please forgive me. I am so humbled.