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In the midst of raising three kiddos, I have often been struck by how God speaks through them - or at least how they express beautifully the Christian spirit. (The teenage years can be a whole other thread!)

During church yesterday, my 9 year old daughter Katie Anne wrote the following on the back of the bulletin:

How many times has my own soul felt the same way..."Don't go, Holy Spirit!"

She also has a phrase that she wrote and posted on her door that my wife and I now have on our computer screens:

We have thought about making bumper stickers of that one.

One other anecdote:

My oldest, Daniel, when he was four, was fascinated with receiving Holy Communion. I used to hold him in my lap and tell him that I was receiving Jesus (we were Latin at the time) and that He went in my mouth and into my tummy.

Without missing a beat, Daniel grabbed my face, pried open my jaws and yelled into my mouth: "I love you, Jesus!"

Out of the mouths of babes...

Any other stories?

Gordo

I LOVE it!!!
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Well...we always told the children that church was the 'house of God'. Little did we know that they therefore concluded that our priest was God!! We found this out when we were discussing something about the priest's family, and one of them (can't remember which one) blurted out: "but I thought that Father xxx was God!"

Alice

Cute.

And my son when he was had just turned three was suddenly awakened from sleep by a horrific earthquake.

At this time, he didn't like to pray as he was still in his terrible twos. So, to calm him down, I mentioned that Jesus heard the prayers of little children. With that, he stood up in bed and said, "Jesus, please stop this earthquake." And low and behold, the earthquake suddenly stopped. He became a firm believer in prayer from that time on.

Ah! Lots of stories from my niece and God Daughter Leonor...

When she was not quite two years old, she behaved beautifully during a mass. At dinner afterwards the priest, a close friend of ours, was telling us, jokingly, that Leonor had been the best behaved person at mass, and that she was, in fact, the only one who really understood the meaning of the Eucharist.
With this he looked at her and said "Isn't that right Leonor? What is the Eucharist all about?"
She replied with one of the few words she knew how to say: "Bread!".

A funnier moment ocurred when she could already walk about. She looked quite startled at the image in our parish church in Sintra of Jesus lying in the tomb, all covered in wounds and blood. She asked my sister what He was doing, and was told that Jesus was asleep. She promptly tiptoed over to the image, and without hesitation began knocking hard on the glass yelling "Hey JESUS! WAKE UP JESUS!!"

Once when my wife (at the time girlfriend) and I were looking after her we decided to take her to 19:00 mass down the road from my parents house. We told her we were going to Jesus' house, where we would see Jesus Mummy.
"Jesus Mummy has a Doi Doi" (baby talk for wound or cut, or anything that hurts)
"No she doesn't!" we replied.
"Yes she does!" she insisted.
When we asked her where, she promptly replied "On her heart..." needless to say, we walked to church in silence.

The most moving moment of all came a few months ago when Leonor's cousin Bernardo was born with a severe clot in the brain. My sister told her that she must pray for Bernardo and Aunt Maria and Uncle Andr�, because they were very worried.
Leonor smiled and asked "But why doesn't Aunt Maria put Bernardo in Jesus Mummy's lap?"

Those words were a great consolation to all of us when Our Lady did indeed take Bernardo up to heaven in her lap.

Wow

If you come out your teenage still a Christian, you'll never convert in your life...

Armando,

Your English is usually excellent, but I think that there is some syntactical problem going on here. I even tried translating it into Greek to see if I could understand it, but I couldn't.

Could you explain what you mean a bit better?

Thanks,
Alice

If you make it through your teens and remain a Christian - you will never become a secularist/agnostic/atheist?

You will always have faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

My take on it anyway