Seeds of Prayer

“Where’s heaven?"
"Where's hell?"
"Was Jesus a skeleton after He died? What does it mean to rise again?"
"Will Daisy (my sister's dog) be in heaven?" "Will [my friends] be in heaven?"
"Will we have skin in heaven?"

Liam’s school started last week, and the questions above are just a few of the spiritual questions he asked me one after another on the short ride to school each day that first week. On Thursday, as the questions continued and I tried to answer them as best as I could, tears streamed down my face while we waited at a stoplight.

I see how God is working in my son’s heart to give him such a spiritual curiosity, and I feel so humbled and grateful to catch glimpses of the work He is doing in Liam’s heart.

I can’t help but muse over how differently this school year has started compared to last year. Last fall, I cried most of the semester over how much my son was struggling in nearly every way. I cried and prayed and wondered if things would ever change. And praise be to God, they finally did! He made the verse that I clung to and prayed for to be true for my family and me.

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.”

Psalm 30:5b

This year, he’s much more ready in all of those different aspects and seems to be thriving so far. But what I’m grateful for most is how eager he is to be a spiritual learner, and although he still lacks a complete understanding of the gospel, I’m so thankful for the spiritual concern he has for himself and his friends as he seeks to understand.

If you read my blogpost from February about my son’s fifth birthday (found here: http://anticipatingadventure.com/2023/02/22/five-years-old/), you know I have been praying for quite some time that God would give Liam a gift and heart for evangelism. It is a prayer that I fully believe God placed upon my heart to pray for him ever since he was a baby, so I get encouraged by moments like these that seem to foreshadow what is to come.

As I drove home from school after dropping Liam off that Thursday, I couldn’t help but think how much I would like to encourage other moms to pray for their children and the purposes that God has for them also. To be able to pray for God’s will regarding our children and then to see hints of Him working in their lives to fulfill those prayers is such a delight. It makes me all the more eager to ask God to show me how to pray for Liam’s baby brother. He already has a purpose for him. He already did before our little CJ was born, and praying for my kids to know Jesus personally and to fulfill God’s purposes for their lives is one of the best ways I could ever invest in them, so I want to invite other mothers to do the same and to leave a lasting legacy on the next generation by doing so.