Putting your praise to God in writing

I know it has been forever since I blogged, and God has worked so many miracles for our family that I need to put in writing. But tonight I would just like to tell you about my Emma putting her praise to God in writing. While I was cooking dinner, Emma was busy in her playroom at her new art table (which is one of my childhood pieces of furniture ~ recently converted to an art desk for Emma and Madeleine). She was so quiet and so good! When I called her to dinner, she said - "Come see what I did!" And there it was ~ sentence after sentence of praise to God. Here are a few (all phonetically spelled - and being a former 1st grade teacher, I LOVE "cinde" which is "kind" of course - she put that silent "e" on the end to make "i" say his own name!). "God loves you." "He protects us." "He is watching us." "He made people." "He made you." "He is nice and kind.""He cares about us." "The streets are golden in Heaven.""You are incredible." "You are my hero." - and about 5 other statements of worship and praise, all very carefully written first in ballpoint pen then traced over in a variety of colors of marker and crayon - all inscribed... on the table.

When I first saw this piece of work, I literally gasped - "Emma!!! Why did you write on the furniture???? You have ruined this table!" I mean - she is 6!!! She has never written on the furniture! She KNOWS not to write on the furniture! Even Madeleine was aghast ~ she was saying "Emma, we write on paper!" Just as I was about to blow a gasket or cry - I saw what she had written. I was very upset, which made her sad - I can not have her thinking it is a good idea to write on the furniture! But, after I read her writings, I quickly told her how pleased God is when we worship Him, and how He delights in her words - but for future preaching - we need to stick to paper.

I asked her why she did this - and she said, "well, it was just so plain." She figured it was her art table - and it needed some art on it. My sister said that she thought it needed some character anyway. She likes that Emma will always have "The Word" under her art now. Mom says that I should shellac the thing in order to preserve her work.
Emma said how very sorry she was, and I told her that it was ok - it will probably end up being my favorite piece of furniture when she is grown and gone. But, truth be told ~ it already is my favorite piece of furniture.