I loved this idea when I first saw it...prayer & kids...how much better can it get?! Mawmaw came home from another outing with a bag of popsicle sticks and I had just decided to save the empty jar of pizza sauce (if you know my mother in law, then you know that me saving a jar made her smile really big).
So, one sunny afternoon (today) the girls and I set out in the front yard and made our prayer sticks. I wrote several different prayers on a stick and let the girls color them. They had lots of fun. Each night, as a family, we will each draw a prayer stick out of the jar and pray for that specific person, place, or group of people.
I am hoping that this will teach the girls - and someday Creek - that there are so many more things than our food that we can pray for :)
Coloring our prayer sticks.
Our prayer sticks - they mostly colored the back of them.
(Sure wish I knew how to rotate pics on Blogger ;) )
The prayer jar.
I'm thinking that when the kids get older and they have the attention span for bedtime prayers to be a bit longer, you could have a "missionary jar", "church staff jar", "family jar", "friend jar", etc., etc. with names of people and each child could pick one prayer stick from each jar. Let's Pray!!!
Original idea from: lubirdbaby.com
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