Thankful Post

Today I'm thankful for answered prayer...

This afternoon I was washing dishes and heard Sawyer and Aidan fighting in the other room. I knew exactly what it was over...Sawyer's little bus...they had been fighting over it all day. And then I heard Aidan scream one of those "I'm really hurt" screams. I dried my hands and ran into the playroom and asked Sawyer what happened. "I bite Aidan," he said, as if it was no big deal.

I consoled Aidan and got him some ice (luckily the bite didn't break the skin) and then disciplined Sawyer and put him in time out. I told him when he calmed down we would talk.

I've been praying A LOT lately, as in many, many times a day, that God would convict his little, young heart of sin. And I prayed then, as Sawyer was sitting in time out, that he would realize that he had done something wrong and hurt his friend.

Sawyer calmed down and we talked about how he hurt his friend and made him sad. I told him he needed to hug Aidan and tell him he was sorry, and that he wouldn't bite him again. I could tell in his face that he realized he had done something wrong. But after all of that he went on his way playing with toys.

A few minutes later he came to me with tears running down his little face. "I sorry, Mama, I sorry!" I no hurt Aidan more (I won't hurt Aidan anymore). I told him that we needed to pray and ask God to forgive him. He parroted a prayer "God, please forgive me for hurting Aidan." and then looked at me and said "I make God happy?!" I explained (as well as I could to a 2 year old) that God is happy when he obeys me and Lance and God is happy when he obeys Him by loving his friends and being nice to them. I also reminded him that God loves him all the time, but He wants him to try to do the right thing.

I think today was the first time that Sawyer really understood that he had done something wrong, that he had sinned and had made Aidan sad. He even asked me, "Mama, I make you sad? I make Dada sad? I make Jen sad?" Praise God that he works in the hearts of little children, that He convicts their hearts just like he does mine.

I know that we have a long way to go in teaching Sawyer about his sin and how it separates him from God, and that's why Jesus had to come as a baby, live a perfect life, and die on the cross. But I felt like we made a step in the right direction today. I'm so thankful for the work that God is already doing in him, even as a 2 year old. I pray often for Sawyer to KNOW Jesus at an early age....may this be the beginning of that journey.