A Child's Prayer

It's been almost two years since we had JJ in our home. Our oldest daughter, Sarah, turned 2-years-old while JJ was in our home. JJ was in our home for 7 months. Sarah just turned 4-years-old.

After JJ left our home family said that Sarah would forget JJ since Sarah was so young.  Sarah kept her memories and has proven people wrong. Pretend JJ has become far less prominent and was often replaced with favorite characters from stories.  She saw the real JJ at a Christmas pancake breakfast for our foster agency. This visit rejuvenated her memory and talk of JJ.

JJ talk drifted away again until about two months ago when Sarah started to pray to God that she would get to see JJ again. "Dear God, please let me see JJ again. Amen." Short, sweet, and to the point.  This is her only prayer. If she prays before a meal, she will usually add something about being thankful for the food.

This has caused me to think two things:
Do I try to set up a meeting or do I just sit back and see what God does? (This makes me think of a joke involving a man on his rooftop with a flood around asking God to save him)
and
Wow, what does this say about how we model prayer?

Facebook

I love people. I love stories. I love hearing what is going on in friends' lives 

especially faraway family & dear friends that I don't get to see in person. 

I love making connections & knowing things that are happening in the world. 

Facebook helps fulfill these loves. It also distracts me from things happening 

in my present reality. 

I've thought many times about fasting from Facebook to focus more on the people 

right in front of me. I make excuses that Facebook helps me do that, & it does 

but I can so easily get distracted with all the other fun stories & novelties 

involved. It makes me sad thinking I will miss out on feeling connected with 

my "friends" lives knowing that I do not have the time during the day to make 

phone or in person or, even, email contact with most of you. That translates as 

no fun in my head but I'm hoping it will translate as more fun outside my head :-), 

like more physical play & personal interaction. 

I also hope it opens up more time to connect with God. I seem to find time to check

my Facebook but yet can't seem to find time to have quiet time with God. The truth 

is I'm choosing my love of feeling connected and thinking I know what is going on 

over intentionally connecting with God.  

I'm fasting until August 4th. We'll see how this goes. Today was my first day and I 

already started calling more people than I would if I was using Facebook. Instead 

of a quick message on Facebook, I made a quick phone call. 

Let's see how this goes. :-)