Life Lessons From a Two Year Old

I mentioned in a previous post that when we pray at night, we're trying to teach the girls to think of something they're thankful for, something they want to pray about and something they need to tell God they're sorry for. Lainey understands these different ideas quite well, but Sarah Grace doesn't quite have a handle on it. Whenever we ask her what she wants to pray for, she usually names something that Lainey has done wrong and needs to say she's sorry for. Conversations often go like this:
What do you want to pray for Sarah Grace?
Lainey being rude. -Or- Lainey being disobedient.
It's so much easier to see the faults of others than to see our own faults. Perhaps this is what Jesus had in mind when he spoke of removing the plank in your own eye before trying to remove the speck in your brother's.
Sarah Grace is at least starting to realize she needs to focus on herself and not Lainey, but she still doesn't quite understand the different things we want her to mention. Tonight we asked her what she was thankful for and she said, "For being angry." Okay, well what are you thankful for? "For being angry and rude." We went with it. Lon prayed with her that God would forgive her for being disobedient and as he was saying "In Jesus Name", she said she wanted to pray for someone. Lon asked who and she said, "Mr. Jim and Mrs. Debbie and Mr. Ken making a sandwich." Sometimes we can't help but smile. Wouldn't it be nice if we were all thankful for such little things in our lives as someone making us a sandwich? More and more I think we have a lot to learn from these little people in our home.