This is one of the experiences I had with our oldest foster child who was 3 years old.
Randy and I have made a habit of reading to Elijah and Ethan and praying for them and over them every night as we tuck them into bed. We have done this since Elijah was a baby.
When we got our "new" boys we knew this would be a great opportunity to tell them about Jesus and just pray blessings over their lives.
Neither one of the boys wanted to be put to bed, they were scared and confused, so Randy put a cd player in their room and put in a worship cd. After about the 3rd night the didn't even fuss at going to bed. The oldest wanted his songs on and he went to bed fine.
I would pray with them both and read a Bible story to them every night. It became our bedtime ritual and it helped calm them and they were no longer fearful of being alone or going to sleep.
The last night we had them the oldest asked me if Jesus was going to sleep on his floor again. It kind of gave me goosebumps because when a child talks about spiritual things I listen. I think they are more in tune to the spritual than adults and I tend to believe what they tell me. So I thought " How cool is that! Jesus sleeping in my house!"
So anyway I'm sure you are curious about Jesus in the bathtub!
The last day we had them I was in the bathroom with the oldest ( we were potty training so I spent a lot of time in the bathroom, cheering or sometimes bribing him to" please go potty!")
He was sitting on his little potty seat and looked at the bathtub. We had the kids dinosaurs lined up around the edge of the bathtub. He pointed and said "hey, there's the man over there with the dinosaurs." I looked and thought maybe there was some toy he was looking at. There wasn't. So I asked him about the man. My first thought was there was a demon in my bathtub and I just didn't want to have to deal with that. So I asked him "Is it a good man or bad man?"
He really didn't give me an answer. So I said" If you want the man to go away, just say 'In Jesus name get out of here'".
So he says " Jesus you get out of here!"
"No, No, we want Jesus to stay, if it is a bad man tell him to go." I say.
So he looks at me with his cute little smile and keeps looking at the bathtub and he finally repeats " Jesus name get out of here."
So I am not really sure what it was, but if Jesus was sleeping on the floor with him I believe he was in the bathtub looking over Him. Maybe He was cheering on the potty accomplishments, too!
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3 comments:
That's so awesome! It made me smile.
That's so sweet! The innocence of a child.
yay! i love this story! soo cute!
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