Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Lydia

My daughter Lydia is now 13 months old now. I have been wanting to find ways in which I may be able to introduce things about Jesus to her. We all sit at the table and pray. We pray before bed and I tell her Jesus loves her. But I wanted more. So like I always should I prayed that Jesus may show me how.
Now, Lydia loves for anyone to read to her. Most children have a book that at one point they make you read over and over again until you can recite the whole thing from memory. Lydia has her favorite book. Not once do I ever get that, not again feeling, when I read her favorite book. I'm over joyed to do this. It is as followed. Her book is :

"The First Night"
By: B.G. Hennessy

At the edge of an old and crowed town there was a field.
In the field were two shepherds and their sheep.
As the sheep slept, a star moved across the night sky.
The star settled over a stable in the town below.
In the warm, dark stable there was a lamb. There was a cow, too, and piles of crisp, yellow hay.
Lantern light shone softly from a rafter above while a donkey slept in a corner.
There was a mother, a father, and a baby. the baby lay on a bed of hay.
the baby was seeing this world for the first time. He saw the swaying lantern, the donkey, and the woolly lamb.
He felt the night air, his soft blanket, his mother's arms, his father's hands.
and in that warm, dark stable his life began.

Isn't that wonderful. I mean I always wondered how I can start introducing Lydia to the story of her savior and one day she comes trotting out of her room with this book. I was so happy. It was amazing to think that God showed me how by my baby bring me a book. Isn't it amazing. Thank you Lord.

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