july 18, 2012

we had a vacuum sales lady at our house last night.  she was here for ever. after an hour and a half i had to get the kids to bed, and decided to stay and chat with emma while she went to sleep, rather than come back out and listen to more sales pitch.

as emma and i layed in her bed, after a couple minutes of being quiet she told me "my hearts beating. like a hundred times. jesus lives in hearts."
i rolled over to face her and we talked about jesus. i told her jesus lives in mommys heart, and in daddys heart. that a person can pray to ask forgiveness for their sins (the things they think, say or do that displease god) and ask jesus to come live in their hearts and be with them always.  jesus helps us to be obediant and kind and loving.  he helps us to be more like him. she asked if jesus lived in georgies heart. not yet, i said.

then i asked "do you want to ask jesus to come live in your heart?"

her eyes lit up. "yes!"

so we prayed. i tried not to cry. i told her i would write it down so we could remember the day that she asked jesus into her heart.

a little while later, after we talked about what tomorrow would be filled with and she started to fall asleep she asked me "youre going to write it down?" "yes emma, i will." "and then we will go see heidi at the zoo." and a few minutes later she fell asleep. because after all, she is three and while she does love jesus, he ranks just above heidi and the zoo in her little heart.