He Prays

Much to our surprise, Gabe has been spontaneously sprouting out little prayers. This phenomenon started say, some months back, and it's occurrence is both sporadic and without specific targets. It occurs mostly when derod is saying our nightly prayers before putting Gabe to bed and in the middle of his father's prayer, Gabe will start his own.

It's always in the only form he recognises, which begins with "Thank you Jesus...". He's fished out names of unexpected uncles and aunties (our friends) and their children. But the latest one was really cute -- he was having a flashback of what he had for dinner and then his imagination took off as the prayer proceeded, as if he was lengthening the little conversation. It went something like this:

"Thank you Jesus for the dinner, have rice, have fish, have chicken, have egg, have vegetables, have meat, have soup, have mushroom, have papa's muum muum, have mummy's muum muum..."

All this while, derod and I were looking at each other with amusement and bewilderment, and me feeling a little overwhelmed by the sheer fact that my son is praying on his own (never mind that the content is really interesting).

And while Gabe took a moment to ponder on what other food he's missed out, the parents quickly came in to end his prayer in Jesus' name and continue with the original one.