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Have any of you Moms or Dads out there experienced the blessing of your child praying for you?  I did for the first time the other day.  Brooklynn (2.5) has been learning about prayer since we brought her home from the hospital.  In our house we pray before meals and we pray before bed, but we also pray about things during the day.  We pray and thank God for the sun, or we pray and ask God to send the sun on a cold and cloudy day.  We pray sometimes when we get mad at each other.  We pray if we have lost something and need to find it.  We pray for animals or sometimes I have been asked to even pray for a stuffed animal.  

I have been trying to get Brooklynn to pray, but she has never wanted.  She just you, “No you pray Mommy.”  I have explained that God likes to hear from her, and its just like talking to Mommy.  Just say what you want.  So finally the other day, I was having a lot of pain in my neck and had mentioned it a few times that I was hurting.  Brooklynn wanted to kiss it better, but I told her I needed more than that.  “We could pray”  I told her.  “Do you want to pray?”  “No you, Mommy.”  She said.  I told her she could try if she wanted too.  I paused.  Then came the sweetest prayer (at least to my ears, and I am sure it made God smile too to hear from this little child!)  “God make Mommy betterd” (betterd, that how she says better :)) It was the best feeling ever, to have my child step out and bring my hurt and ask God to make it better.  She soon wanted to run down the hall with me, an activity I had been reluctant to do before because my neck hurt so bad, but unfortunately God didn’t heal me instantly.  Although what testimony if he had.  

Nonetheless it was an amazing experience and I only pray that Brooklynn’s faith will grow and grow and grow, and I look forward to many more chances to hear her prayers and see her growth in my Savior.  And my biggest prayer is to see Brooklynn and my son, Braeden come to a knowledge and belief in the saving grace of Jesus Christ.  But for now I will rejoice in their innocence as small children and know that my God cares for them, and if I and my husband are faithful in raising them right in the Lord’s eyes that he be gracious to us.  It reminds me of the song,  “He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it, he who started the work will be faithful to complete it in you!”, Have any of you Moms or Dads out there experienced the blessing of your child praying for you?

Carma

How many times did I change my socks today?  Okay only three times, and one of those was putting socks on when I got dressed this morning.  But I think normal people only go through an average of one pair a day!  But today Richard decided to clean down the hall.  We work and live at a Bible Camp and actually reside in one of the camp buildings.  We call it home, its nice and cozy and during non busy season its quiet and just feels like a normal place to live.  Anyways, Richard decided to clean outside of our apartment down to the other end of the hall and his office…so he was vacuuming and then mopping.  Brooklynn decided she needed to be trooping around on the freshly mopped floor, so I put her slippers on.  (Which are a garage sale find – huge Clifford dogs, which look hilarious when she has only a t-shirt and underwear on!) Her feet were staying dry and my were okay until she insisted on trying to mop her self.  I showed her how to use the mop pail but my socks had no hope!

The next pair had to be changed around bath time…does anyone else have this problem when their kids bath.  There is just about as much water on the floor as in the bath tub?  Oh my word, both my kids splash like there is no tomorrow!   Braeden, he is only 6.5 months, so his splashing is expected.  He loves the bath and vibrates every time I take him near the tub and turn on the water.  Brooklynn, her splashing is more to do with her wild imagination.  She is usually pretending to be swimming in a large pool, hopping like a frog, diving like a mermaid (by the way, thanks Little Bear for teaching my child about weird mermaids, and not to mention goblins!) or she just gets carried away playing with her horses and ponies.   Tonight I actually remembered to lay down a few more towels on the floor than usual, which saved the floor, but not my socks!

Socks are a small price to pay to enjoy watching my kids having fun in the tub or learning to mop a floor.  (I don”t think Brooklynn thinks that mopping is a chore, she was having so much fun!  She may think otherwise when she is 15 and its been on her list of chores for the past 4 years!) Today I was in awe of how God has blessed my family…wet socks were probably the worst thing about today.  Nothing to complain about at all.  Thank you Lord for health, safety and your loving hand on us.  God is so good, so good, He”s so good to me.

Carma

Well here is my attempt at blogging.  I am not sure what I am doing, who I am writing to, what I will be exactly talking about and if this will turn into something I will enjoy doing for any amount of time. But here it goes…Hi my name is Carma Bankert.   If you were to have asked me about 7 years ago what I would be doing in 7 years I would never have guessed I would be married by 20, have my first child by 23 and the second at 25 and to top it off never would have thought I would love and know know that this is what God has desired for my life.  I always thought I would be a missionary of some kind.  Never did I think that I would be a missionary in Canada at a little, but special place called Dauphin Bible Camp (more on DBC and life as a directors wife in a later post), and never did I think my own personal mission field would be my own home.  Let me tell you…being a missionary in your own home is so hard!  You never get a break – their are eyes on you all the time!  Watching your every move and critiquing your every word.  Even if your words are still said in simple language.  (My kids are only 2 1/2 and 7 months…so they don”t critique me too much YET, only if snacks are not provided when promised.)  So that’s just a little about me and what God has called me to for now.  I love my Savior, I love my husband, I love my kids.  My hope is that I can use this blog to get out my thoughts from day to day to share what my life is like…not because I feel everyone will gush and goo over how cute and funny my kids are, but I hope to encourage other moms, dads or others with my life lessons from parenting, wifehood (is that not a word) or my personal walk with Jesus.  Until next time…

Carma